Restoration
You'd left home only a week prior, hastily throwing essentials into a backpack and evacuating. But the one thing you didn't think to pack, water, likely the most important thing, somehow, forgotten. "im going to fucking die out here, alone and helpless" Your thoughts spilling out of your mouth. Rolling your eyes and looking ahead. Nothing but the horizon, no animals, or other crilxoid, no plants, and most regrettably, no water Just sand and the occasional trashy shelter.
Author's Notes
Welcome back folks- Restoration is back! I took a bit of a...break from writing due to lack of motivation and having different things I needed to write for with an actual due date lmao. But we're back! And I've got a good outlook on how the next few parts are going to go. So hopefully it doesn't disappear for another month!
Chapter 14
You collect your belongings and hastily stand up, waiting for the others who are slowly doing the same. Taking their sweet time, as it seems, they brush themselves off and you begin to get moving once again. As you walk, your thoughts wander, the only things keeping you from insanity are your own thoughts anyway. You eventually reach the topic of how you even got here, good question. All you can recall is that the late ex-sovereign, whose name is still bitter on your tongue seemed to think industrializing the planet was a good idea. Everyone truly seemed to be blinded by her exterior beauty. Well, almost everyone, Donna had been in power for years, and you can't help but recall some rumors you heard from friends, and friends of friends, about family members that were actually competent and got punished for their free-thinking, you ponder this for a while. Of course, everything was fine though, why wouldn't it be! Your thoughts get progressively more aggressive over the span of hours of walking until they materialize into a sudden crumpling to the ground with your hands clutching your head.
"God DAMNIT!-" You scream, it's the only way your emotions could escape. Axon, Aeryn, and Kip immediately stop in their tracks and turn their heads toward you. Simultaneously they speak,
"What's wrong?" Silently shaking your head you continue to dig harder into your scalp with fury at all who were blinded, you know how stupid you look, but it's too much to handle. A few words slip under your breath,
"If they all hadn't been so IDIOTIC and MATERIALISTIC the world wouldn't be ENDING right now." Aeryn pushes the others out of her way and kneels next to you. Trying her hardest to be comforting.
"Hey- I know, Donna was a prick, and people were....quite...dull. But, Donna's gone, people have sharpened and realized what mistakes they made. We're almost to Legate, and therefore almost to headquarters...Once we get there, we're fixing this shit. Now cmon, get up. We've got work to do." She grabs your arm and pulls you up. Still feeling sour you shake her off and walk ahead. 'Are things really going to get better? Or is she just trying to give me false hope?' You think to yourself, then shrugging it off. Even if it may have been false, it worked. There's hope for Bomiea and you know it. With power in the hands of someone who will use it for good, nothing is going to get in the way of restoration.