Prologue: It happened two years ago. Everyone was just minding their own business when we saw it. Then, everything went dark. This was nothing we ever saw before. The bomb killed everyone outside and almost everyone inside due to the fumes. I thought smart, though. I grabbed one of my dad's gas masks. He works for the nuclear plant. He had a bunch of them in the basement. I hid behind a couple of boxes and stayed there. The windows were already sealed air tight in the basement. I quickly looked behind me and the boxes. My friends were passed out. I was a little dizzy myself. Our city became more advanced over the years. Scientists found a way to clear up all the nuclear radiation very quickly. But sometimes, it was too much and people from other cities have to start up another migration. A migration is when people volunteer to come and start up civilization in an abandoned city. They had to do that because we were caught in the middle of a nuclear war between us and Italy. It started 2 years ago. We were at four years now. It was a back-and-forth kind of thing. But no one in America wanted to do this. We were forced. And innocent civilians were being killed at least twice a month. A lot of them. And whenever we were bombed, it was unexpected. We had no warnings, no signals, no alerts whatsoever. This was simply a hostile takeover that only the Italians would perform. But no one ever expected this. And i was only 16 when this happened. About 10 minutes after the ambush, i passed out. And did not wake up for 2 years. I'm Yesinia Alison Carson, and this is my story.