Ray studied the group with keen interest.

Geronimo forced a smile and said, "It was just bad luck. When the disaster struck, a lot of the hotel staff were trapped outside—in places like the greenhouses. The hail kept falling and falling, and we had no way to bring supplies out to them. They… they probably froze or starved to death."

That was plausible. In the early days of the apocalypse, the toxic hail had fallen for nearly twenty days straight. In such conditions, it was almost impossible fo