Snippet #2643707

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Solomon deMause and Perrine C. Demetri

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When you had been alone for so long, without someone to talk to, someone that listened, it felt so good to actually have a real conversation. And the fact that that person felt the same way and understood, had been through the same thing but still found their place in this strange new world felt even better. For the first time in an extremely long time Solomon felt like he actually would be able to live here and find the place where he belonged. And he liked it, he couldn't help but grin as he followed Jerry to where he was going.

The burial of that guy who had trained him and the doctor. If something of those two were good information it was surely the location of the doctors place, if he got sick he needed to know that. And right now he had no clue. He had no clue on anything, he knew where the power plant was, in which building he spent his nights and where he got the food rations. But more than that? Nope. He had no clue which places he should avoid and where he could get help with things.

To find out where the doctor hanged out was a good first step in the right direction, that way he wouldn't need someone to guide him there in case he got sick or hurt himself while working.

As they made their way into the building Solomon was actually a little astounded, he thought this place would be completely different. Fresh, white, whole, clean and doctorish? Something like that. But this place was just as dirty and old as everything else. He had actually believed that the doctor would be someone from Utopia, someone from down there. Someone above them, which was strange since Jerry did tell him that he apparently was engaged to the doctor. Why would someone from utopia be engaged to someone working at the power plant? How stupid of him.

But even if the outside was falling apart like everything else, the inside was still the cleanest place he had seen since The end. He was actually a bit impressed that someone was so dedicated that they would do something like cleaning a hopeless building for the sake of the patients. Which was exactly was the doctor was doing when Jerry opened the door to the office.

The moment she heard the voice of the one who entered Perrine let out a sigh and continued to dust the room, "Oh it's you again. Let me guess you're not sick are you?" When he mentioned that he had brought another one she glanced backwards at them just to check if the second one needed her help, but no that one seemed fine as well. "And your friend doesn't seem to need me either, so both of you are just here to bother me while working? How nice of you. Are you perhaps teaching the young one what not to do?"