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Luminate - Hope Is Rising

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█Skye sat on the fifth floor of a ten story crumbling building. She sat on the edge with her legs dangling while behind here there was a battle being fought between concrete and vegetation. The vegetation was clearly wining as the building was now being engulfed by wild flowers and green vines throughout it's structure. The scene around Skye was beautiful to her, she has always been an outdoors person and loved sight seeing but this seemed to top them all. There was something about viewing the dilapidated city from above with the glow of the sunset hitting it at the right angle making it a sight worth seeing. In those quiet times are when the memories beckon to her, they came like a slide show showing her all the good and bad times. It started out when she first arrived at the academy, meeting Carmen for the first time and bunking in a room with her.


A second memory came but it was three years into the academy and it was a silly one. She can still remember it till this day, Skye had fell asleep and missed one of her training classes. When she woke up from her nap outside in the grass during that summer afternoon, she found Carmen next to her, sitting up as she watched the clouds roll by. The warm glow from the setting sun hit Carmen at the right angle making her glow when she smiled at Skye. Even now that memory still makes her heart race because that was the day she realized she was in-love with this woman in front of her. The woman couldn't help but to let a soft smile cross her lips as she let out a chuckle and messed with the ring that she now wore as a necklace around her neck. She lifted the silver band that was engraved and now a bit dirty to her lips, pressed her lips to it and whispered something inaudible before tucking it back into her shirt.

From where she sat, it was almost like the world stood still and there were no zombies, no crazed people or suffering anywhere, just her sitting here. These little moments were rare to her, just yesterday she killed about half a dozen of zombies, two scavengers that after many times of telling them to leave her be they still attacked and she ended them and a wild rabid dog that she felt bad for killing. Animals and children always hit a soft spot with her, like most but in this world now it was either kill yourself, get killed, turn into one of them, get eaten alive or survive. None of them sounded too good to Skye so she stuck with survive, she wanted to live, live for her and Carmen both and one day get back her love.

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