"I get it," he answered after a short, rather pregnant pause. Just to make sure Jesus didn't have anything else to add before he said anything. "We saw what they had in there. That kind of fire-power..."

Daryl shook his head and looked down at his bowl. He understood the reason Jesus did it, even if he didn't appreciate the outcome. There were a lot of supplies both their communities could have used inside that truck. It was a major loss when so much had already been scavenged from the area and there weren't any way any of them could really start to make their own again. Not past the growing of food, which thus far had proven difficult inside the Safe Zone. And no one was really sure why, either. Soil was good, but food wasn't growing. Maybe the seeds were bad.

"You need guns to go up against it. You folks don't have none."