FROM: Grant Rowe TO: Mom SUBJECT: [No subject] Dear Mom, I heard some guys jabbering about a breakthrough on the Atlantic today. Said southern Jersey, Philly, northern Delaware is just... gone, NYC nearly surrounded. My CO won't confirm or deny, and since we stopped using augs I can't check the feeds, but everyone's talking about it, and all I know is, if it's true, Vineland was right in the middle of it... and that means you were in the middle of it... in which case I'm writing to a goddamn ghost like a goddamn fool. Ah, screw this. Screw enduring victory and zero dawn and everyone and everything else. Honorable service, my ass. I should've stayed home so you didn't have to die alone.