Day 958

The great thing about the new glass front to the mall is how much sunlight it lets in, or rather all the weather it lets in through the minuscule cracks between the sealant that has clearly never done its job. It may have lead to the gradual growth of mould on both the inside and outside of the mall front but at least it was found to be a brand new strain with only mild long term health effects.

It might have been the mould that doomed us when the storm came.

After seven weeks straight of the worst rain/sleet/gale force wind combination the mall finally began to flood. Of course the rest of the area had succumbed weeks beforehand, leaving the mall as the final stand for those who couldn't or wouldn't head to the rescue points. They fled to the uppermost floors, hoping that they'd not need to wait on the rooftop for the rescue that had evaded them thus far.

All the while the storm water outside wasn't a healthy colour, it seemed to surge with its own tidal pattern as it seeped through the mall front, dragging more moss inside with every deliberately slow wave. The first few people who tried to boil the water to drink it fell violently ill and came to the conclusion that their cure could only be found in drinking so much of the raw water that their skin took the same dull green hue.

As with any dire circumstance, order fell and chaos walked along to suggest that they drown the sick so that their disease wouldn't spread. After all, what else helps a natural disaster more than offering it a sacrifice so willing? Combined with the apparent lack of help from the rest of the country they saw it as their only option.

By the time help arrived the lower floor was clogged with bodies and the last two survivors claimed they were all still alive and free from their disease. They continued to claim this even as they told the authorities about how each and every body had stopped thrashing eventually and bubbled into stillness, bloating and collapsing under its own fetid weight yet somehow still alive enough to talk and beg for everyone else to come down and be with them in their newfound paradise.