➣ Was kept indoors as a young child. The wilderness was dangerous.
➣ Once he could walk and talk appropriately, his father (Stein) allowed him outside near their bunker in the Wincroft Forest.
➣ Once he could walk and talk appropriately, his father allowed him outside near their bunker in the Wincroft Forest.
➣ Pierce learned how to garden and his father began to teach him different weapons for self-defense purposes.
➣ By the age of ten, his father realized just how difficult it was to teach reading and writing when paper was so hard to come by. Instead Pierce learned how to draw different symbols in the dirt or leave natural signs (rocks sorted in specific patterns, etc) to communicate with his dad stealthily.
➣ He learned how to clean and dress certain wounds, hunt, purify drinking water, maintain their bunker and keep it hidden, and everything else his father could pass along.
➣ Pierce was now in his prime, and working alongside Stein was fantastic.
➣ As he hit his teen years, his father even took him out on rare occasions. At 15, Pierce saw his first woman. She was a 43-year-old his father was making a trade with for more bullets.
➣ At 17 the two realized that a small never-ending cold that Stein never seemed to recover from was something more serious.
➣ Stein's health went from concerning, to fatal. He continued to grow sicker and sicker and it became clear it was not something he would recover from without doctors. However, Stein believed in survival of the fittest.
➣ As Pierce's father became bedridden most hours of the day he told Pierce he didn't have enough time to teach him how to find a woman to reproduce with. Pierce promised he'd figure it out and help keep their bloodline going.
➣ Stein tried to pass on as much information as he could about the tyrannical military out in the world that Pierce had yet to experience.
➣ Soon, his father became too ill to pass on any information or final life lessons. Pierce eventually had to burry his father away from their bunker and said his final goodbyes.
➣ When cleaning out his father's room, he discovered a strange piece of technology he'd never seen before (tablet). Pierce has no idea what's on it.
➣ As the weeks turned to months, Pierce slowly found himself losing his sanity from the isolation that followed the loss of his father. He needs human interaction. Badly.
