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Jul 03, 2009 12:53AM
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Jayne Carse walked carefully around a building, avoiding the few people she saw and keeping her head down, scanning the area. She wasn't really looking for anyone or anything in particular, just looking. She noted people who looked like she should avoid them, and places where she might be able to spend the night. Without parents, and being from a family against the government, Jay was having a hard time surviving.
((There's no sidewalk, they're inside a giant vault inside a mountain... It's like an indoor city. Okay, maybe there can be a sidewalk then... O_O))
((I thought the thing said they were out...))
((They won't get out until later. Opening the door of a vault is illegal, because the nuclear fallout could cause radiation to kill everyone inside.))
Alex walked around inside of one of the giant vaults. He sat down on a bench, looking up at the ceiling. He realized that he didn't remember what the sky looked like anymore.
Alex walked around inside of one of the giant vaults. He sat down on a bench, looking up at the ceiling. He realized that he didn't remember what the sky looked like anymore.
((Huge. It's like moving NYC or Washington, DC inside a mountain. They are literally indoor cities, all over the world. The world was covered with nuclear fallout, which is fatal for humans.))
((ok, then I'll put building back where I put lightpost. but you wouldn't be able to see the ceiling then, right?))
((Well, they must have some form of lighting... So there can be lightposts just so people can see. There's no sunlight, they need to be in a lead-lined vault to protect them from radiation.))
Jay saw someone her own age sitting alone on a bench. She felt a twinge of loneliness, but didn't go over to him. She couldn't help watching though. Jay had always spent her life alone, without friends. The sight of another person her age always seemed to surprise her, and she always found herself staring.
((yeah, but walking carefully around a building sounds better than walking carefully around a lightpost ^_~. oh, and have you read The City of Ember?))
((No... What's it about? I know I've heard the name, and it sounds good, but I forgot...))
((... well... it's about an underground, post-apocalyptic city that was built to house about 400 people for 200 years, when they'd go back to the surface to see what was still there.))
((they've got giant lamppoles everywhere for lighting, and everyone believes the sky is supposed to be black and everything. that's the first book, at least. in the 2nd, they go above ground, and the 3rd is a prequel.))
((is Alex going to notice that Jay's staring at him?))
(('Kay, cool. And yeah, he will. That sounds just like Fallout. 200 years after the end of the world, people start going outside. Also like Gurren Lagann, where no one knows what outside is.))
Alex saw Jay staring at him. "Hi." He said quietly.
Alex saw Jay staring at him. "Hi." He said quietly.
((Ember was made into a movie, I think, but I never saw it... I don't remember if it's been released yet, actually -.-'))Jay jumped slightly, looking down. "Sorry," she said automatically, embarrassed to have been caught staring.
((No, it hasn't... I've seen small previews.))
"It's okay." Alex said. Amy used to act just like that... He thought.
"It's okay." Alex said. Amy used to act just like that... He thought.
((ah, good. I want to see it.))Jayne didn't know what to say, so she was silent. Should she ask why he was alone? Ask for his name? But then she might have to give hers. And then he might have a family member or friend who was in the government, someone who would track her for being related to the Carse uprising....
"I'm Alex." Alex said. "I understand if you hate me... My father helped build Ivan, and he dropped one of them. No one understands that I'm nothing like him..."
Jay looked up, surprised slightly, then back down. She was supposed to hate him. But that would be hypocritical to the extreme. "I'm Jay. And I can't hate you for who your father is, because then you'd have to hate me for who my parents ar-" her voice caught. "Were"
"Yeah... You lost your parents too?" Alex asked. "Sorry... I can't help but think that I could have stopped this..."
"That's how my parents died, trying to stop it," Jayne said, her voice strangely tight, as if she were about to cry. "I was there. I saw it."
"I never tried to stop it... I couldn't stand up to my father." Alex said. "I was too... Scared."
Jay nodded slowly. She understood. "So, now you're alone, aren't you?" she said, looking up again. "Without parents, and being a distant part of the driving force?"
"Yeah..." Alex said. "I've only ever had one friend, and she lives in a different vault now."
"Oh," Jay said. She was surprised to feel something... jealousy maybe, when he said his friend was a girl, which was totally ridiculous and she instantly felt her cheeks heat up slightly. Quickly she shoved the unbidden thoughts away to replace it with how he'd had a friend and lost her. She wondered if it was worse than never having a friend.
"Yeah..." Alex looked back up at the ceiling.
Jay rocked back and forth on her heels for a moment, then said "What's it like? Having a friend?"
"Uh..." Alex said. "Hard to describe with words..."
Jayne looked at his face hungrily, hanging onto his every word. She'd always wondered, but never got the chance to ask.
"Maybe you should sit down... You look tired, and maybe you need a friend..." Alex said, smiling.
Jay smiled back, one part actual smile, one part unused to smiling, one part I'm-not-supposed-to-trust-anyone. But she really wanted to trust this guy. So she sat down on the bench, on the far end away from him, but still on the bench. "Sitting. Yes, and... maybe," she said.
Alex looked at her. She really reminded him of Amy.
Jayne looked at the ground to avoid looking at Alex, swinging her feet slightly.((dinner. will have to go... soon.))
((ok))
Alex eventually went back to staring at the ceiling.
Alex eventually went back to staring at the ceiling.
"What now?" Jay asked after a little while, as the lights began to dim, signifying that it was 'night'.
"I don't know... I don't have a house, so I just sleep wherever." Alex said.
Jayne nodded. "Same with me. You'd think the government would do something to fix that problem," she said with a sigh.
"The government is the problem." Alex said. After a while, he looked at her again. "You really do remind me of her..."
"Who?" Jayne said, before she remembered. "Oh."
"Yeah..." Alex said, staring at the ceiling again.
It got darker quickly. "If we're going somewhere else, we probably should soon," Jayne said, a little nervously. She didn't like being in the open after dark, she wanted to be somewhere with a light she could turn on or hack so it was turned on.
"I usually sleep out here." Alex said. "I would even if I had a house. It's almost like really being outside..."
"I like bridges," Jayne said. "Or abandoned buildings. Sheltered, and I can get it light. I don't like the dark. I can't see in the dark," she said, sounding almost like a small child.
"I like the dark because of that. I don't like to see the cave. It reminds me of my family's mistake." Alex said.
Jayne didn't reply; there wasn't anything more to say. She was getting more and more nervous the darker it got.
"If you're scared, you should go..." Alex said.
"But if I leave, I'll loose the closest thing I've ever had to a friend," Jayne said swiftly, before thinking better of it. She stared at the ground, cheeks flushing.
