Conquering Utopia » Places

         It had been some pretty hot days, searching around in the desert. No one had any idea if they would actually find anything in the abandoned town where houses were falling apart. Everything was falling apart. But after some days of just digging around in a pile of dirt and forgotten possessions they had gathered a small collection of things they had some use of. So they left in the evening when the sun wasn’t as high.

The last red sunbeams caressed the ground as the car left a cloud of dust behind it. And as they left no one of them noticed the figures in the shadows, watching them leave. So when the vehicle was far away the figures started moving, a whole bunch of people emerged from the darkness. There were girls and guys. Many of them. All of them looking beaten up and more. But what would you except when the world had fallen to pieces?

The group of people looked after the scavengers, discussing it all between them. It was the first time many of them had seen a car in ages, it was intriguing and very interesting. So after a voting the group started to follow the marks left by the previous group. And they continued to follow them for days, in the burning sun and through cold nights until they arrived at their final destination. Utopia.

As they arrived they were not greeted with open arms, instead people fled the open spaces. Into the houses. But who could blame them when the new ones looked so rough around the edges? And it was the first time in a long, long while that such a large group entered the city than everyone couldn’t help but get nervous. Who knew what they wanted?

But there was one, someone that always looked out for everyone that wasn’t afraid of the newly arrivals. He walked out as soon as he received the news about them, with arms wide open and a huge smile on his face. Behind him his loyal supporter and so called sister followed as well, because if they were friendly and had been walking around for such a long time they probably wasn’t in such a great condition by now.

“Welcome!” Bad Request waved at the newly arrivals to come closer, “Please come inside!” After some short glances at each other the huge group did as he told them and followed him inside to the convenient store. Once inside Perrine started to check on the guest’s. And let’s just say it was their first time visiting a doctor for a long, long time.

But as she did bad Request was talking with the leader of the group. And that conversation was the first interesting conversation he had experienced in a while. She told him stories, fantastic stories. The more she told him about it the more his eyes lit up, glowing in the dull light slipping through the covered windows. She told him about a place, on the other side of the desert. A place like Utopia, but better. She told him about a safe haven for survivors. Where food could grow, a place that the toxin had been neutralized. It sounded like a paradise. She told him about how she and her group had been sent out to search for more survivors to bring them back to the city.

So after some days of discussing between the people of the surface, many of them decided to leave with the new arrivals. Some stayed behind. But many of them was tired of how they were treated by those inside the walls. So one evening, people started to march out of Utopia. Not to look back. They left for another shot in life, and hopefully a better one. If they could trust this pack of stranger they didn’t know. But their leader did and he left Utopia and so did his sister. So they followed him and walked away into the sunset for new adventures somewhere else.