Chapter 6
Reunion
2064 A.D.
Aurelia crawled to the front of her cell to reach the stale biscuit the guard had thrown in. She tried to bite in. Big mistake. It was as hard as the walls of the cell. She sucked on it for a while and then nibbled on a tiny chunk. She wasn’t going to allow herself to starve here. Her routine continued for about an hour and she had only finished half of the biscuit. She gave up. Maybe she should save it to knock out guards instead. Good thought. Complimenting herself as a little pep talk, she put it in her pocket and tried to decide what to do next.
She would never leave this pl
Chapter 5
The Sixteenth Field
2064 A.D.
The man observed Callisto in an amused manner. He looked like a cat ready to pounce on a poor mouse. Callisto knew he was more of a beast than a man. No human would do the terrible things he had done. No human would take the innocent lives he had taken. Not even animals killed for pleasure. They killed for food. But this human killed just because someone didn’t think the same way he did. This man was like the bully who beat you up because you didn’t let him copy your book report. But that was probably the biggest understatement of the millennium. And Callisto was only 3 fe
Chapter 4
Over SEAS?
2064 A.D.
How do you find a way to escape a place rigged with extreme disc tumbler locks, complex laser systems that activate with the slightest aggravation, advanced Per SEAS systems, and other crazy machines? Aurelia ran through every single possible escape plan in her mind. But she fell short of information. She barely knew what the place looked like. She just got here. She would have to wait for more exposure to her surroundings to actually guess what the place looked like. The she’d have to go from there. She could be here for months before she ever saw the stygian, smoggy skies again, whi
Chapter 3
Imprisoned
2063 A.D.
Callisto wanted to scream. The pain in his head from when a guard forced him down in the trunk of the van was enough to give him a migraine. But that’s not why he wanted to scream. The thought of his sister alone- wait- his sister wasn’t alone. She was probably in a situation similar to his, being driven away in a D.T.A.L. truck. Or worse… But Callisto didn’t want to think about that right now. The only way he could help her right now was to stay alive for her.
So, trying to forget about her, he scanned his surroundings. The back of the truck was closed off from the fron
Chapter 2
The D.T.A.L.
2063 A.D.
Callisto raced through the tunnel frantically with his sister Aurelia in tow. He reached into his pocket to make sure that the tiny picture of his family was still there. Thankfully, it was. He had grabbed it from under his sleeping mat just in case he would never see his parents again.
Aurelia's words broke the echoing silence that had hung around since they had entered the tunnel, "Callisto, I know this sounds a little childish, but, do you think mom and dad are going to come back for us?"
"I don't know," Callisto's simple answer was, "I wish I knew… I wish I knew.