"I… would be grateful," she murmured. "If you truly mean that."
She lowered her gaze demurely, but inside her heart, a single thought pulsed like lightning.
'Just get inside the base and fetch me food. I don't care about anything else.'
The moment the man nodded with earnest determination, Hannah softened her expression and allowed relief to fill her eyes like warm light.
She whispered gently, "You should go now. Before the opportunity slips away."
The man straightened his shoulders, nodded again, and turned away.
As he walked back toward the line outside the SiIvy base, Hannah watched his retreating figure with a quiet, unreadable calm.
'He will be useful later,' she thought. 'And if he isn't, he will at least feed me for now.'
In truth, Hannah's strange ability had awakened on the very night the apocalypse began.
