Chapter 26 : Power Switch

• Lisa woke up with a start! She glared up at the unfamiliar ceiling for several seconds before finally remembering that she had moved into her new base. Sitting up on the two old couch's, Lisa stretched stiff and lazily. The room was a bit chilly, but at least it felt good to have had a full night's rest. Even at Joan's house she couldn't sleep-in long because Richard got up every morning before the sun had even risen. He had to tend to the garden or collect firewood and just him moving around the house was enough to keep Lisa awake. This was one of the downsides of being perpetually alert as a former soldier.
• Getting up and ready for the day, Lisa started off with two carrots for breakfast. Not an ideal breakfast, but it was far tastier than nothing. Besides there was not much food left in her possession, even her MREs were starting to run out. She also had no idea when her next real meal might come along. Finishing her meager meal and deciding that leaving the coffin in her 'room' would be alright for the time being, it was time to start working.
• Her first task, before checking to see if she could get this old dam running again, was to stock up on more food and water. The water wasn't all that hard to get nor that scarce. The river had bulged into a sizable lake on the topside of the dam and flanked by steep canyon walls. This lake’s surface was remarkably high reaching and to get to its surface, Lisa only need to make a short walk down a rocky slope next to the dam’s wall. Her she decided to add a well wheel pully to make water collection even simpler or perhaps the wiser solution would be to get the pump station working. That is if she could get electricity to run the pump.