The Walking Dead, Survival Rule Of The Week: Trust counts for something

1) The Details Make The Difference.

I feel like people have a tendency to not see details as important to something they’re told as say…the original subject is. I can understand that, but, in a zombie apocalypse, you’ll realize, sooner or later, just how important the details can really be.

For example: While Hope may, in fact, be a prodigy, enough that the Civic Republic sought to bring her back to the Civic Republic to assist them in their research to find a cure for the zombie virus, there was one teensy detail that Leo never realized, and the Civic Republic never thought of, namely, that Hope’s genius was aided by her sister. She’s smart, certainly, but, not as smart as the Civic Republic thinks she is without Iris.

…That’s a detail they might have wanted to know.

You see, in a zombie apocalypse, your life may become dependent on having (Or, perhaps, not having) little details like that.

If you’re told by someone that a community a hundred miles away is a safe haven, and arrive there to discover that it’s either been destroyed, or, that it requires you to become a cannibal to live there, that’s something you would have preferred to know before you trekked a hundred miles over zombie-infested country to get there!

When you hear something from someone in a zombie apocalypse, demand to know all of the details, pay careful attention to them, and be observant of anything involving them, as something as simple as a detail being off can alert you that you’ve been lied to, or something you might have been counting on isn’t what you thought it would be. The more prepared you are for the bad things, the better off you’ll be should they happen.