SHAY MONTGOMERY: One thing I still haven't gotten used to is how quiet the city gets at night. I keep on waiting for sirens, for cars, for all the noises that we used to take for granted. Background noise, you know? Now it's insects and birds. Oh, and gunshots. So maybe not everything has changed.
I remember a party junior year at Georgetown, with a bunch of us just hanging out and drinking beers and talking about what we were going to do with our lives. I mean, we were all pre-med, so it was kind of a limited conversation, but even so. None of us imagined this.
I don't even know if anyone else who was at that party is still alive. And yet here I am, about to breach the Capital Station Dark Zone again, looking for meds for the people who've fallen through the cracks of whatever system's left.
I like to think I'm doing the right thing.