"I think I can handle it. We should probably carry water around, actually, and food, I didn't think of that."

"Me and Stiles are from California too. Have you guys seen signs of anyone else, who might have brought us here?" 

"Well I have a backpack, maybe we can find one for you too, or if we're keeping mostly to the paths we can bring stuff with us on a cargo-rack when biking or something."

"No, this place is eerily empty for how big it's looking to be. Do you have any idea how far you had to bike to get here?"

"Maybe both, then? Non-essentials in the cart in case we have to leave it."

"I don't know, around twenty miles. Where in California?"

"Yeah, sounds like a good plan."

"Near Los Angeles, that's a pretty long bike ride to take with no destination in mind."

They head out.

Bikes?

"It wasn't that bad. Kind of exhilarating. I probably won't be doing something like that again, though."

There's a bike store relatively close to the mall lobby. "Wow, these are really nice bikes." They are, they have disk brakes and good gear systems.

"I consider myself pretty fit but I wouldn't want to do that at a whim, so that's understandable."

"Nice. Let's start gathering supplies."

"I really should try to find Stiles, before she gets too far."

"Where would she go? Down another one of these paths?"

"She did want to go outside. But we just came all this way, I'm not sure."

"Sure." Riley side adjusts a bike to fit her and then attaches a cargo trailer. Then she consults the vague map she's drawn in one of her notebooks. "I'm ready when you are. First stop CVS."

"How far back did you lose her?"

CVS it is. Pain relief, vitamins, any ointments and creams and rubs that seem vaguely helpful...gum can't hurt, really.

"If we find any cameras, we're stopping. A phone doesn't cut it."

"I just went to look at the stores, couldn't have been a quarter mile. She must have gone in the other direction, I would have seen her." 

"I think there might be a Best Buy on our route, they probably have a camera." Riley remounts her bike. Next stop Krogers.

"Alright, well we can get bikes and come with you or we can wait here."

She grabs anything that looks easy to prepare. 

"She could be anywhere by now, but she'll probably come back if she doesn't find anything- or gets hurt. There are three of you, maybe one could come with me?" 

It's a grocery store, if she tried to grab the entire frozen dinners section they won't be able to transport it. Riley is more focused on picking up some spices and various staple foods. She wants the kitchen to be well stocked. "Do you think we're going to lose access to this place Maddie?"