“Who the hell is that?”
“It’s Eddie Diaz. New recruit. Graduated top of his class just this week. Guys over at station six were dying to have him, but I convinced him to join us.”
“What do we need him for?”
Sometimes we just take a wrong turn too close to the tide. Waters rise and sweep us away. We fight the currents for a way back to dry land and solid ground. To each other. To normal. Then we catch our breaths and we search the shore for all that we lost. And everything we loved. For our families. For our dreams and our futures.