I mentioned Brien showed up. It was an unexpected, but welcomed, encounter. The list of our daily activities is pretty short. It's a lot of just being. Just surviving. A lot of trying really hard to not reminisce. When the world has changed this much, I find it's best to look ahead. The problem is simply that really is that I suck at it. But, one chore of sorts is scouting. Pairs of us go out to the outlying areas of the zoo to check for anything out of the ordinary. Sometimes to try and hunt or fish. Brien's arrival happened to coincide with a scouting round. Tom and Cory were out. They rarely go together...they tend to squabble but nonetheless the were out. Thank God they were out together. The recapping of the story makes me cringe every time. Tom told me how they spotted a figure at the water front and how quickly Cory had drawn his gun to take it down. Fortunately, Tom, being the far less eager to kill one of the two managed to interject just soon enough to give Brien time to turn around and throw his hands up. Brien was just pulling his kayak up on to Owen's Beach with cat in tow.
Needless to say fortune was in our favor. Now we just wait. Brien is in quarantine.
I'm optimistic that Arrayah will give him the all clear.
-Adam