Imagine the most delicious food you can think of, imagine it to the best picture in your mind, then destroy the idea of ever eating it. Hunger has always been a problem in Perido Beach until the kids sought after the food they could obtain by hunting, fishing and growing. The food is limited to fish, deer, artichokes, cabbage, and the few canned foods that are left. As people in this class we can't imagine having this type of diet plus the limited intake of water due to the weather patterns being predictable(their is no weather, thats why the weather patterns are predictable). Low water, the best mutant hunter dead, and food that is hardly satisfying to a regular person, Naturally in this situation the citizens send Sam out to find water at the newly discovered lake but as in this life and theirs the most random things happen to get in the way. First the swarm Bates(Snakes that have wings and a bacterial parasite that eats away at your body)which Sam to destroy. Then a child nick