Meteor Fall Introduction

So, these are the first two paragraphs of Meteor Fall, a kind of introduction and so yeah. Tell me what you think!

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The children cast their gazes upon the sky. The bottoms of the clouds were pitch-black, and the rest of the clouds were dull shades of crimson red, which casted a ghastly red hue on the pallor of the children. There was not much for the children to do, besides scavenge for food and supplies, nor was there anyone new to talk to besides each other. Previous excursions proved the extermination of every man, woman, dog, and cat besides the small group that thrived in what once was bustling New York City. The children took refuge in a dilapidated theater, made worse by the incident. The children had learned to adapt to the ever worsening environment, learning where The Great Poison had infected the water, and where the best places to get food were.

The children had plans to head out west, to see if people still even breathed. Yet this plan wouldn’t work for two reasons: One, none of them knew how to drive, and two, most of the bridges and roadways exiting the city were completely gridlocked with cars containing remains of human beings, so they were all afraid of getting near the bodies. The city itself was devoid of cars, but every road leading out of it was packed. The children quickly abandoned that thought, anyways, and were now focused on surviving by themselves. After the Great Poison had infected all of New York, and possibly the world, things started to erode and decay exceedingly slow. By now, half of New York had sunken into the ground, creating a huge cliff that split New York straight down the middle.

-Jon