In the beginning of Rot and Ruin we are told about first night and what it was. We were told about how Benny's parents were killed by zombies in the middle of the night, but we weren't told all of the details. We don't why there was an outbreak in the zombie population, or how the first zombie came to be. I have finally gotten to the part in the story where Benny is having a conversation with one of the erosion artists. The artist witnessed the very beginning of first night, and he is telling Benny all about it.
"The guy in the cell started biting the other drunks. Everybody was screaming. The cops thought they had a nutcase on their hands, so they did what they were trained to do: they unlocked the cell to try and break up the fight. But by then at least one or two of the other drunks were dead from the bites to their throats or arteries. It was a mess..." (136) This quote is a good description of the very first minutes of first night, the very beginning of the Rot and Ruin.
