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Children Of The Prophecy - pt 15

Summary: Overthrowing the government is totally and absolutely a great idea

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Tw: Corrupted government (does it need a warning?), awaiting one's death, natural disaster in progress, very vague mention of injuries, mentions of arson/arsonists

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The bunker was pretty small. It consisted of a square room, which was split into two smaller rooms, one being two times bigger than the other.

The smaller room was a kitchen, with a cabinet taking up half of it and a cupboard.

The bigger room had a round table with chairs around it in the middle, kinda blocking the entrance to the other smaller room. On the right, there was a half-eaten sofa in a greenish shade of yellow. The fabric was ripped, with coils and the mattress sticking out. On the left, in the corner were shelves with old books and melted candles.

A corridor wound up around the square room. It was about ten feet wide and half-dark, the dirty light bulbs doing an awful job in lighting the place up.

Seven doorways appeared in the hallway, three of them leading to the room in the center, and the rest to rooms around it.

The entrance to the bunker was also in the hallway, a ladder leading to a hatch in the ceiling. From there, on the right, there were two dark, wooden doors leading to the bedrooms. (Which were completely empty, except for three bunk beds each).

If you continued going down the hallway you'd see another door, leading to the dingy bathroom.

As much as the bunker looked habitable, the bathroom was the exact opposite.

It looked like it was straight from a horror movie, with the dark, ruined walls and the shitty light bulb.

There was a giant mirror in the front, taking up the whole wall. It was dirty, with some red unidentified spots and broken edges.

Under the mirror, there was a muddy sink with rusty faucets.

On the right there was a bath, standing on four golden feet. It used to be white, now discolored, in a weird beige-ish shade.

On the other side, there was The Toilet. Absolute monstrosity. Broken, dirty, the walls around it completely destroyed, with the tiles long gone and the paint peeling off like the foil from sausages. If you've ever been in a portable potty, this was worse tenfold.

There was a single candle standing on the flush, acting as the only source of light since the shitty light bulb was broken.

The fourth door was locked, whatever was inside being left unknown.

And in that exact place Meredith and Jesse found themselves led into by the raincoat-wearing-stranger, Claire Avery.

"Ah, home, sweet home" they said, sarcastically, jumping down from the ladder. Their green raincoat flopped down.

Jesse followed closely behind, while Meredith carefully lowered herself down.

They entered the square room through one of the doorways, and Meredith immediately threw herself on the sofa, stretching her injured leg out, and folding her hands behind her head, as if she was sunbathing, which was almost impossible considering the lack of light, let alone sunlight.

Jesse sat down next to her, while Claire Avery took a chair from the round table and sat on it backwards, so they were facing them.

"So," they started, encouraging them to talk

"So," Jesse repeated after them "what is this place?"

"Well this, my friend" Meredith said, opening her eyes, which the former hadn't noticed she closed "is called a parallel dimension"

Claire Avery looked amused "You're right about that. As you can see, this dimension is destroyed" they stated the obvious

"Yeah, but by what?"

"By the corrupted government, the Organizations, the freely roaming criminals who got out after everything went to shit." a look of nostalgia showed on their face, as if they were remembering something a long time ago "Oh and let's not forget that the sun is fucking dying and our whole world is gonna go down with it"

"That doesn't sound promising" Jesse agreed

"When the public first found out that the government was gonna fix the sun, they were ecstatic. Y'know how they say the sun is gonna explode one day?" they paused "This was not the case. Hell, I wish it was, our death would've been quicker. Here, the sun just started to slowly lose its light. Every year gets colder and colder until we finally freeze to death"

"That sucks"

"The govt operation turned out to be complete BS. They said they were gonna fix it, but they actually screwed it up more.

"When the public realized what was going on, it was too late. Things got worse. The riots started. AN overthrew the govt guys and believe me when I say—"

"What's AN?" Meredith perked up "I think I've heard it before"

"'Arsonists of the North' they started the riots, and we're the northernmost corrupted region"

"Can't you just get out of here?" Jesse crossed her legs

Claire Avery sighed "That's the whole problem" they said, leaning back and quickly catching themself, having forgotten the back of the chair is in front of them "The borders are guarded, and it's not like the rest of the world is safe, y'know" there was longing with something neither Jesse nor Meredith could identify in their eyes "There's no way out of here"

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It is almost midnight. Should I be asleep? Yes. Do I have school tomorrow? Yes. Do I have to do 50 pages of chemistry and a fake final thingy till tuesday which I hadn't even started? Also yes.

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