Welcome to Gaia! ::

“Since after day zero, I’ve been with the Mall Rats, but we aren’t rats really. Those are gross. I never really had a job or purpose before but they took me in and I had a new home in this bad time. I was now a part of something. Much better than being alone in this, right?

Life in the mall has been wandering the same confined place over and over again. Some places are okay. Other places are not. Some are too scary to even want to explore. Who knows where the infected are.

For the most part I stay in Teavana. No safe water makes it hard. I stink, others stink. It’s the best for now. I tried to make it home. A bed that isn’t a bed: just a banner on the floor. I have a desk though. It took a lot of work and I got lost, but it’s mine and part of my home. I built it.

Every day we fix the barricade. Every night the infected come and break it a little more. It feels like we use the same old parts. Often I travel farther to find new ones. But I know together it will last for us.

I think I’m a good Mall Rat. I am just one of many but I am already Rank 2. I earned a new costume; much better than my last but a bit tight. That’s not what matters though. What matters is

HELPING.

I came to help, but what did it get me? I can’t see. I wonder if I will even make it back. It is the bandits’ fault. I don’t even know if I will see again.

Who will help ME?”