Clementine:
I watched Ian get up in the morning and get ready in silence. The others were quiet too. It was getting to be a little too much for all of us. The upbeat energy we used to have at the start was suddenly gone.
I couldn't help but think about the crusaders before us and wonder at what point in their journey they were told to go fix the rock in the towers.
Mr. Rick said the task came at different steps for everyone. For some, it was maybe as early as the first or second task, and they were wiped out right after. For others, probably much later.
I wondered if the snake I saw in the north had been killed by one of the earlier crusaders. Or maybe other people lived up there, like the brown house people, and they killed it.
The thing was decomposing, so it wasn't going to just stay there forever. That meant it had been killed either recently or not too long ago. At least not by a crusader, since the group before us must have been months back.
