The Ember Lights

New York City 458 Days after Incident The city was silent as B-295 walked slowly down the street, he always took the silence as an early warning it meant that they were close by, he avoided wearing the human clothes that he kept in his bag since they were what had wiped out the humans also haywires were prime to attacking humans or anything for that matter the clothes were only needed for the cold nights, a noise came from a building across the street B-295 quickly pulled out the handgun aiming it at the source of the noise although the katana would quieter the gun had better range, he kept walking but walked slowly to avoid making any unnecessary noise, he kept scanning the building as he passed behind an abandoned car he repeated the numbers “286” when he was clear of the building he ran round the corner until he heard the sound of birds and knew it was safe, a convenience store was just down the road, B-295 opened the door slightly and peered inside. The shop was silent, he crept