Snippet #2356896

“Remain Calm! Remain in your homes! Evacuation measures will be taken shortly.” called the emergency broadcasting systems.

Leilani and Liliana looked at one another as their parents placed them in the basement. “You’ll be safe.” Their father said. Lelani nodded, Liliana frowned. “ Dad...The virus.”
“ You’ll be safe.” He assured her but they knew that. They were worried about them.

The doors of the basement shut and then the wait.

The seemingly endless waiting....

Artemis shot up from her hammock. Her brown skin glistened with sweat and she gulped in air.. That same damn dream. It was so long ago when the virus took them. All of the adults. Dead. Bodies everywhere. Children left wandering the barren land. She was only a child herself at the time. 14 years old.

She took another breath and noticed the sun creeping up from the east.

Morning. Glorious morning. It meant she didn’t have to sleep though she hated it. All sleep brought was more dreams.

She looked around her tree house. She and the former Piper built in the Raging Forest before she succumbed to the virus. That was the thing about this virus.

You were immune into you reach 25.

That wasn't too long from now for her. She was 19.

It was too soon. Way too soon.

She rose from her hammock. She dressed in her typical Dyrad clothing made only of natural material. and completely barefoot, she walked around the large tree complex. Some nicknamed it ‘The tree house’ but it was much much more. It was a vast complex built into the trees as that housed all of the Dryads. There were hundreds of these ‘Tree houses’ built within the Raging Forest and more being built everyday. There and one for the infirmary, botany, weaponry training and water treatment.
Artemis made her way toward the training fields as the young Dryads were being trained. She watched them with a smile.

Way too soon.