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Two Absurd [Anzie] Feb 4, 2014 17:04:12 GMT -5

Post by Will on Feb 4, 2014 17:04:12 GMT -5

CAINE GALEN

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
- Audrey Hepburn

I walk through the town. Weaving in and out of the hustling and bustling crowd. All of them carry their groceries, which consist of bread and fruits that probably don't belong here. We don't even know where our food comes from, we only know that we have food, and that's good enough. I come to this place to grocery shop as well. I walk around, carrying the bag I got from home, going around to the different stands.

I ask the baker for bread and he heads into the back room to get me some. As I wait for him I set my bag down on the counter and start counting out the money to pay him. As I do this I immediately hear the sound of footsteps moving at a very fast pace. Before I can even change my attention from the money to the running person something slams into me! I know it's a person, because nothing else feels like that when it comes crashing into you.

I fall to the ground, push the person off of me, and then shout, "Watch it!"

"Baby you're a firework
C'mon show them what you're worth
Make them go Oh! Oh! Oh!"
- Katy Perry, Firework.

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Two Absurd [Anzie] Feb 12, 2014 3:32:09 GMT -5

Post by анзие (Anz) on Feb 12, 2014 3:32:09 GMT -5

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[presto]

Lachlan's pretty sure he's not broken any laws.

Really. All he's been doing is walking down the street like any other innocent teenager, hands in his pockets, slouching like he doesn't want to be seen. And, well, maybe he's been kind of muttering to himself about things (like, "Chocolates," and "Fucking flowers are a bad idea.") that aren't entirely related and could well be taken for a secret code for some kind of rebellion they might think he's trying to stir up in Six, but it's really just about chocolates and flowers.

(He's thinking of getting them for Odessa, surprising her just a little bit because yes, he can be an asshole but he has an equal chance of being nice and it just so happens that he wants to be nice for once in his goddamn life.)

Lachlan is honestly nothing but innocent. Or at least, innocent in the sense that he's not done anything wrong recently - that is, in the past month or so. And certainly he's done nothing detention-worthy that he knows of for the past six months.

So why they're chasing him is completely beyond Lachlan.

The only reason he's not entirely sure is in the simple fact that he's running away from the Peacekeepers on his tail. Because innocent guys don't really take off away from the law unless they've done something wrong, right? But in any case it's not like he can slow down and play it off as chasing someone he knew, because he's been trying to dodge them and taking shortcuts through alleys and markets in an attempt to shake them off (it hasn't worked, obviously).

"Stop!"

"In the name of-"

Screw your law, Lachlan thinks as he gathers himself to leap over a crate left innocuously on the busy street he races on. The sentiment could be born from his current state of exhaustion (will they ever let up? Lachlan's no longer in the same shape he was in before he met Odessa, because he admits to being distracted by her - her face, her eyes, her everything, pretty much - in his free time, and the rest of it is really taken up by actually being with her), or it might just be the truth of the matter: the Peacekeepers don't actually give a damn about the law unless it suits them. So why should Lachlan care about their law?

Those are the kind of thoughts that will land you in the detention center, says his sister, in his head.

He'll never admit it later on, but her voice causes him to trip over his own feet-

"Watch it!" his cushion shouts below him, and Lachlan's shoved off in a swirl of sky-ground-sky-

-right into someone.

The guy doesn't look entirely happy. It is kind of my fault. At any other time Lachlan might just have a fifty per cent chance of saying sorry, but-

"You watch it," Lachlan snarks right back, adrenaline pumping through his veins. He glances swiftly over his shoulder; the peacekeepers haven't noticed him yet, but they're looking. They're definitely looking, Lachlan thinks; they're practically shoving everyone out of their way.

Not that Lachlan did any different.

"Shit," he says, mostly to himself as he scrambles to his feet. And of course his weakened leg chooses that moment to wobble and give up, causing him to fall over yet again. (Sure, it lets me jump over things and run for at least five minutes straight, but when I try to stand up-) Thankfully, he avoids crashing into anything important.

Just something heavy and solid.

White dots burst into his vision and Lachlan stares blindly at the unfocused area before him. Is... is that...

"Ow."

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Two Absurd [Anzie] Feb 24, 2014 19:35:28 GMT -5

Post by Will on Feb 24, 2014 19:35:28 GMT -5

CAINE GALEN

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
- Audrey Hepburn

Suddenly the boy collapses to the ground and slams his head into it. If I didn't have a doctor as a mom I probably wouldn't have caught the fact that it was his leg tripping him up, quite literally. He lays there, eyes out of focus, then says blatantly,

"Ow."

I stare at the boy who lies on the ground as I climb up. He looks not much older than myself and judging by the fact that he was running and Peacekeepers are violently searching a crowd, he must have done something. A criminal? That seems unlikely. Nobody in this district is ever arrested for actual crimes unless they're selling drugs. The rest of it is just silly things that the Peacekeepers seem to make up to get their way. If he really is a drug lord I would like to stomp his face in right here. The nerve of him! But the possibility of his being in the selling drugs industry is very low.

People my age are more often than not killed if they try to do anything more than buy drugs. Oh, another crime worthy of severe punishment, though much worse than the first one. The boy also has no signs of yellowed or wrinkled skin, which would indicate that he has not done drugs, and if he has, it has been either for a short time or very sparingly. I might be able to understand and forgive a person like that.

Who am I kidding? Even if he's done drugs before, he does not in any way deserve what the Peacekeepers will give him. Maybe he's a thief. But that is understandable if you are poor. As the Peacekeepers rush through the crowd, obviously in a search for this boy, I realize that even though he insulted me for not moving out of his way, that I should help him. I kneel back down on the ground and ask,

"Do you think you can stand?