After Cassie's encounter at the local gas station, we switch to the view of a teenage boy. He is in a hospital bed. He can not recall his name or where he is. He is painfully sick. He glimpses a mirror. He looks horribly pale and has lost much weight. Suddenly, a military man walks into the boy's facility. That man begins to tend to the boy's wounds. The medic is held at gunpoint. An officer of higher rank takes the boy and the medic to an execution room. The medic has been identified as an Outsider, according to the higher ranked officer, the one's responsible for the destruction of humanity itself. The boy presses a button, and the Outsider no longer belongs on Earth.
We switch to a hunter in the hills outside of Cincinnati. He is watching his prey through his rifile's scope. On the highway, an image appears. It is a teenage girl. She is so clueless he thinks. He focuses in in the girl, anxiously waiting to pull the trigger. She'll be just like the other 5 he shot earlier that day. With the world being so desolate and empty, no one will hear her scream.
This book seems pretty interesting, and the abrupt style you wrote this post in helped the tone of the story.
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