You and your small group were thriving far from anyone else’s. You never got caught with negan or anyone bad in that case.

isolated in a far far field, where your group had cattle, pigs, chickens and a good small town of people.

that was until you were on a run to find some books for your science team, when your found Rick, tathern and beaten, clearly he had ran as far as he could. You could see the lost and dead in his eyes. You brought him back to the field which took hours beyond hours.