The guilt was always evident in my eyes when I was around her, but I had to be strong and firm with others, I found. I have memories, but are they your memories of me? Some of the smaller fruits and vegetables were already ready for harvest. The air was electric, everyone was grinning and excited as the walls of the barn were raised and then hammered into place. People actually cared about other people, and taking advantage of another seemed anathema to everyone. Amélie was, like always, my lighthouse. A strictly vegetarian diet while healthy, would be very difficult to get used to, and my Princess was ravenous for meat, if our nightly antics didn’t prove that enough to me. Not fully. We still had power, water, the necessities, we even had digital media and video games, but people were closer now than before. First and foremost was resources. People actually cared about other people, and taking advantage of another seemed anathema to everyone.
