Before the first wave of zombies were reported the country was broken in to states and for the first couple of years those boundaries stuck. Slowly as people moved, settled, fought just to survive states edges blurred until it was just land. Flat open land, cities- town, and forest. Buried deep in the wilderness of what once was known as the state of Kentucky was a community built into the tress. It was built three years after the first attacks. A group of twenty survives settling into the tress to avoid the grounded creatures.

Thirty years later an array of buildings had taken the place of the single wooden lodging built around an giant Oak tree. There was barrecks for the males and females with out children to care for, smaller one room buildings that housed the small number of families, rooms that were used to educate the new generation on trades that would help keep the community flourishing. They had built the closet thing to a kitchen they could manage with a mess hall attached for the community meals.

They had branched down to plant small gardens in the batches of sunlight that slipped through the tress. And with a system in place that had people making bi weekly trips to near by cities and towns they kept well stocked on the supplies they couldn't grow or make themselves.

The governing system was a pyramid. Everyone had their roles. Runners, scavengers, caregivers, nutritionist, gunners, what ever the community needed. For each group a representative was elected to meet at the round table to discuss any concerns and needs. At the top of the Pyramid for the last twenty odd years was North Coulson. Now with a lessening of zombie sightings and the slow drag of time aging the founding members Ironwood was going to into the final stage of survival. Reestablishing humanity.

A task that North was not fully equipped to help with which brought in the need for a co leader. Someone who had already been half running the community anyway and one of it's founding members.

It was with all of this in mind that kept the short Asian woman out of bed and instead leaning against the wooden guard rail staring out at what she could make out of her tree fort home from the star light.