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"Does anyone have bandages? We also need to find a running stream and make a fire, quickly. A metal bowl or cup, that would also be good. See if we can salvage anything else from the bus." She was referring to the fact that a couple of them, including herself, that hadn't taken off their bags, saving them from the explosion when they fled.

"Jacob, stay here. Someone, please watch him. I will go scavenge and see what can be found in these... woodlands. Please, someone else, look for a stream. Another of you, gather firewood and start a fire somehow (you can probably get some flame from the bus, it's still burning pretty well). And lastly, someone needs to make bandages from clothes if we can't find any. If there are any of you without a job now, go in a group to find the river or stream or some body of water." Samantha took charge, no one else was, and she knew how to survive in the wild if that was to be the case.

It was a good idea to bring her "survival guidebook" that she had. It had been a leather-bound notebook that she had written notes in about survival in the wild, in forests especially. Even moreso, finding edible plants throughout many places, especially in winter...