It struck me that the interior of this building was surprisingly dry. I’d watched the TV series Life After People when I was still alive, and the show made the point again and again that things would fall apart quickly once people were gone. But everything here seemed to be in pretty good condition. Was that better construction? Or milder weather? Or perhaps a complete absence of bugs, molds, fungi, and so on? I couldn’t use Mario’s survey of the first Others’ victim species he’d discovered for comparison, because the Others had taken the time to knock most structures down and procure the rebar and other metal components.