It only took about 30 minutes but I was eventually intercepted by Madison, Travis, Eliza, Alicia and Victoria, who was showing them around still. But they tracked me down specifically because it seems some things are inevitable, Eliza, Travis ex-wife, still got herself bitten and Victoria, after learning this since she has been around them more than myself so far, told them there is a cure so as to not do anything stupid like assisted suicide.
The look of hope on their faces when they asked me about it was heartbreaking somewhat since I had to give a partial denial of not really.
"..sigh we used our supply when we were at the military camp.." the look of abject horror on some of their faces made me feel kinda like an asshole for leading with that and I kinda wish I lead with this first "but your lucky, Helia..." speak of the devil and she shall appear. "Can produce one more tear today" as I said this Helia flamed from my shoulder to Elizas, startling her. Helia quickly letting a tear drop on her head before flying off to Victoria's shoulder much to her happiness. They both seemed to like the attention sometimes.
A few moments after the tear landed, her whole body seemed to steam a bit before the wound on her stomach simply vanished much to everybody's amazement.
The scene of them doing a celebratory hug was somewhat warming, then Eliza eventually broke through the group and hugged me to my own startlement. She was most certainly pretty, not as much as Victoria but pretty none the less.
"Uuhhm your welcome? I say while patting the crying woman's back looking at the others for mercy. They looked amused at my dismay, the bastards. Victoria just had a knowing look on her face, she knows I'm horrible with dealing with women, it's why SHE deals with the hordes for me.
Eventually I manage to regain my freedom and Travis also thanks me with vigorous hand shaking, much more reasonable! The others still had an awed look, as they should, whenever they looked to Helia a visage and the miracles she performs.
With that, me and Victoria, with Alicia tagging along since she didn't really know Eliza very well let them have some time alone.
"So.." Alicia starts hesitantly "is there any plan after we leave the coast or are we just winging it from there?" Alicia asks me rather bluntly. Which I can respect because honestly I wasn't sure.
"Mostly winging it I think. There's not much we can do aside from find survivors, gather supplies, and hope to not get overrun by the dead or bombed by the military it would seem." She didn't look overly pleased with my answer but it was somewhat understandable, who could plan for this?
"It's possible that a cattle ranch I had set up may have survived, it was completely fenced and I did manage to get them a warning before everything went to complete shit, so I guess it simply depends on what is found." I tell her with a shrug.
"Texas is the current goal, as that's where the ranch is located and it's only about 30 or so miles from Port Freeport so it's not too inland and also isn't exactly on top of big cities either except Houston, but not too close at least. We will have to travel through the Panama Canal, to Freeport, then check on the ranch." I tell the pretty brunette simply.
"Well that's better than could be hoped for honestly. A port should also have supplies, Texas has a lot of farmland and cattle, and if it became necessary we could try to make runs in Houston for other things if the city isn't too bad." She said, more like thanking out loud.
"All true" I told her "it was kinda my backup plan for when things went bad, but things are worse than I thought it would be so it's a tossup honestly." I shrugged at that. I could probably flame travel there but I simply didn't care enough to try teleporting to somewhere I have never been before.
"It will probably take around 9 days to travel by ship so I hope you like sea voyages" I said in amusement to her look, I guess traveling on a giant yacht is still exciting to a teenager.
Not long after that a one victor strand managed to track me down. Basically wanting to know similar things as Alicia did. I told him generally the plan but didn't go into detail since at this point in life he was still an asshole who only cared about himself.
I told him we could travel together as far as he wanted and then he could do his own thing. (go find his lover or whatever) before we parted for the last time though, I would give him a diluted vial cure in case things are the same there as in canon, consider it a mercy and maybe it would make him a better person.