No

Druuna looked at the bush for awhile, and eventually decided that it wasn’t worth the risk to eat something she wasn’t one hundred percent sure of. She took a drink of water and moved onward through the forest. She tried to remember what she had red about those orange berries as she walked, and eventually she remembered that they actually were edible, but the book had also said they had “strange effects” on the human body. Druuna hadn’t understood a number of the larger words in the book, but she remembered a particular word, “hormone”, was used several times when describing the berry’s effects. Druuna decided that she’d have to figure out what a “hormone” was, as the strange word piqued her curiosity.

Druuna walked for hours through the dense forest brush, until she came to a spot where the forest began to thin out and she could make out a ribbon of black stone winding a path through the land. She recognized this pathway as a road, though the forest had already begun to re-colonize the stone pathway. Figuring the smooth road would be easier to walk on than the uneven forest floor, Druuna continued on, using the road to go faster than having to move around fallen trees and thick mud.

The pathway radiated heat in the hot afternoon sun, causing the horizon to waver like a mirage. Druuna made good headway, and by the time night fell she could clearly see a small settlement of some kind in the distance. It appeared to have once been a gas station and convenience store at one point, but whoever lived there now had removed the gas pumps and planted crops around the building. The windows had all been boarded up, with small slots left in the barricades so guns could be fired out from the inside. Druuna crept in the brush to hide herself, not sure if she should get closer or not.