While I was getting my daily water fill, I had an idea to steal the water truck and save Zero! I got some help from the new kid Twitch who was a pro at stealing things.
Can you help me?
Sure can buddy.
I crashed the truck in the hole we dug to find more of Kate Barlow's stuff. I decided to just go on foot. I wasn't sure if Zero was even alive or not, but I didn't care.
I have to find him!
I realized that I forgot to get water before I stole the truck, but I could handle it. I headed in what I thought was the direction of Big Thumb. Walking helped calm me down and allowed me to think clearly.
I came this far, I'll go back when I'm too weak to walk. I might aswell continue to look for Zero.
What is that? Is that an animal?
Eventually, I came across a boat, at first I thought that I was hallucinating but I remembered that this place used to be a lake. On one side of the boat there was a pile of dirt and then a tunnel leading down below the boat.
Mary Lou
Hey!
hey...
It was Zero! Zero’s face looked like a jack-o’-lantern that had been left out too many days past Halloween. It was sad to see him like this but I was so happy to see him alive!
He found something called "sploosh" that tasted like peaches and filled my mouth and body with serenity. We decided that we would go to "Big Thumb".
What does that look like Zero?
Zero and I were tired to death but we had hope. Zero threw up everything in his system because of the century old sploosh.
I asked if he was alright and he just flashed me the thumbs up. We continued our way up Big Thumb with Zero not being in a great state and me being crazy tired.