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lobsterbox2015-09-25 04:29 pm
oflongago) wrote in lobsterbox2015-09-25 04:29 pm
Is it a sin to be weak-hearted?
"Not here either..."
Alexei picked himself up from the ground, brushing off his knees and turning to his former classmate again. It didn't seem like things could get much worse after the meteors hit. Areas that weren't destroyed by the impact were left uninhabitable and needed to be evacuated. Entire metropolitan cities were emptied and thrown into chaos as people tried to reach the parts of the country that had escaped the devastation.
But it wasn't that easy. There were still more refugees than there were places able to take them in. Of course there were camps and settlements hobbled together to provide some sort of protection and stability. That had been fine for the two of them and the rest of their school group. Wait, and maybe their families would find them. Maybe they had escaped, too, and were just separated in the chaos of the aftermath.
Alexei, for one, still really hoped that was the case.
It was a question why he didn't just stay there instead of following Marcel after he was exiled.
...well, it wasn't like he could just let him go alone. The two of them weren't exactly friends before, but the two of them were the same. The same mutation, or illness, or curse—whatever it was, exactly. If this were a movie, people like them, with powers, would become super heroes and save everyone.
But this wasn't like a movie. Unnatural powers like theirs were seen as more dangerous than amazing, and...he resented the way people like them were shunned. He hated the fact that even someone like Marcel could be exiled for something he couldn't help.
Even if he couldn't bring himself to tell him that they were both "cursed", he felt a kind of kinship with his barely-a-friend classmate. They should stay together.
At the same time, their current state was pitiful. The city around them was abandoned and in ruins, most useful items pillaged long before they arrived, and tracks in the park didn't feel old or manmade. The energy he felt on them wasn't quite like anything a normal animal would give off. Not that he was exactly an expert in that area, but humans weren't the only ones that were changing.
"There might be something else living here now. I don't know if it will be safe to stay here."
Alexei picked himself up from the ground, brushing off his knees and turning to his former classmate again. It didn't seem like things could get much worse after the meteors hit. Areas that weren't destroyed by the impact were left uninhabitable and needed to be evacuated. Entire metropolitan cities were emptied and thrown into chaos as people tried to reach the parts of the country that had escaped the devastation.
But it wasn't that easy. There were still more refugees than there were places able to take them in. Of course there were camps and settlements hobbled together to provide some sort of protection and stability. That had been fine for the two of them and the rest of their school group. Wait, and maybe their families would find them. Maybe they had escaped, too, and were just separated in the chaos of the aftermath.
Alexei, for one, still really hoped that was the case.
It was a question why he didn't just stay there instead of following Marcel after he was exiled.
...well, it wasn't like he could just let him go alone. The two of them weren't exactly friends before, but the two of them were the same. The same mutation, or illness, or curse—whatever it was, exactly. If this were a movie, people like them, with powers, would become super heroes and save everyone.
But this wasn't like a movie. Unnatural powers like theirs were seen as more dangerous than amazing, and...he resented the way people like them were shunned. He hated the fact that even someone like Marcel could be exiled for something he couldn't help.
Even if he couldn't bring himself to tell him that they were both "cursed", he felt a kind of kinship with his barely-a-friend classmate. They should stay together.
At the same time, their current state was pitiful. The city around them was abandoned and in ruins, most useful items pillaged long before they arrived, and tracks in the park didn't feel old or manmade. The energy he felt on them wasn't quite like anything a normal animal would give off. Not that he was exactly an expert in that area, but humans weren't the only ones that were changing.
"There might be something else living here now. I don't know if it will be safe to stay here."