Josh staggered up and slammed his hand on the control board angrily, his eyes sparking and his fist nearly blowing out the candle.

"Shoot it!" he growled. "The air drone is not far enough away ahead of us but there is not time to waste before they get in and if we turn around we'll probably die in the hurricane that'll come eventually in three hours. Also, the drone will probably turn back." He glanced back nervously at the eyes and shuddered. Day lowered her head nervously, staring at her shoes that were dimly throwing back the light from the candle.

"We'll figure it out," she muttered, not daring to make eye contact with him. "The Sunless will take a while to get in."

"The Sunless?" Josh snarled. "You couldn't have mentioned this before?" He whipped his head around to glare fervently at the infected people and raked a hand through his rakish hair.

"I just found out," Day muttered, turning her head away and lowering it further as Josh started to pace, snapping to himself.

"Stop being a cowering, dithering, bile-filled mole!" Josh hissed at her and she whipped up her chin.

"The things we've been taught about you." Day fidgeted with her hands. "Doesn't kill but loves to torture. Kidnaps innocent girls and tortures them with laser guns. Tortures boys with... other forms. I know your evil," Day avoided eye contact. But to her huge surprise, Josh started to laugh.

"And you believed them?" he asked. "That I would do that? Do I seem very vicious to you?"

"Of course we believed them," Day retorted. "What else would we believe, and it's not like I knew you!"

"You do know," Josh pointed out quietly. "Nothing should have changed between us when you found out. Nothing at all. I'me the same person that you were snapping at earlier."

"But you could still do something to me, couldn't you?" Day demanded. Josh sighed.

"The truth is, I only steal and I do it for my family, searching for a cure for a specific disease that they have." Josh peered pointedly out the window, probably searching those red, infected eyes. "There must be a cure for the Sunless."

"Why would you care?" Day asked, shuddering at the infected reek that seeped under the aluminum doors and rose and encased the whole room in the stench. Josh peered forward and searched the flashing eyes.

"My family is gone," he whispered, his hands starting to shake and his body trembling. "They have all become Sunless. And I am next."

Sorry for such a short chapter! (Though I am thinking that most others aren't much longer)