Katherine: Narrative 7

While the guards are distracted, Thalia, Eva, and I race through the opening.  Inside the walls it appears to be a fairly simple city.  Many house all looking the same as the other seem to wrap around inside of this wall.  The houses seem to wrap around leaving a tall building in the center of the town.  It’s quick to notice that most people around here are all wearing the same long white coats as they walk around town.  We obviously stand out the way we look and quickly duck behind a house for cover.  Thalia mutters something and suddenly her clothes and Eva’s clothes match to what is being worn around the town. 

“Put this on, duck,” a familiar voice behind me whispers.

I turn around, and there is Chaud and Ravager standing right by us.  Chaud is holding one of those white coats in his hand.  I quickly take the coat from his hand and as soon as I finish getting it on; an alarm begins to blare and everyone that was on the streets, begin to flee indoors.  We follow suit and all run into the nearest home and shut the door behind us.

As we close the door, I notice a woman sitting in a chair holding her daughter in her lap in the center of the room.  The woman cannot be too much older than I am, the daughter looks to be somewhere around six.  They both look so pale in the white clothing with their dark brown hair hanging in their faces.

“Who are you?” she stammers while holding her daughter’s head to her chest.

“We came in from outside when we heard the alarm,” Thalia answers.  “What is going on there?”

             “You don’t know what the alarm means?” the woman inquires, her voice still shaking.

             “You’ll have to pardon my wife here,” Chaud answers as he wraps his arm around Thalia. “She hasn’t been all quite right since she got ill.”

               The woman looks at Chaud with his arm wrapped around Thalia and immediately seems to calm.  She stands up and keeps her daughter held tight to her.  I notice that I don’t see Ravager anywhere, probably hiding somewhere in the shadows from everyone’s sight.

               “Let me go get you all something to drink while we wait.” She says without shake to her voice at all.  “If you want a reminder of why the alarms are going, you are welcome to take a peek out of the window.”

               She leaves the room with her daughter to fetch some water and I peek out the window and it looks like the sky is on fire.  There seems to be some kind of barrier between the city and the fire keeping the city from being burned to the ground.  Between breaks of fiery bursts you can see what it causing the fire, dragons.  There has to be at least a dozen of them flying over the city, trying to make their way through but to no avail.  Why would dragons be attacking such a small town?

               “Oh!  Pretty…” I hear Thalia exclaim beside me, must be trying to play the part of someone who is bit off.

               “So, do you work in the tower on the project too?” The woman asks as she returns with a pitcher of water and some empty cups.

               “Oh, yes ma’am.” Chaud lies with a handsome grin smudged across his face.

               “You must put in many hours.  My husband works there too.  I feel like I never really get to see him much anymore, always gone,” she says while stroking a family photograph on a shelf. 

               The alarm silences outside, and we politely thank the woman for sharing shelter with us before we leave her home.  We don’t walk long from her home when suddenly the woman’s voice calls out behind us:

               “That’s him!  That’s the man who killed me husband!”

               We all turn to look as she is pointing to Chaud.  We see guards begin to surround upon Chaud and he appears to go with them fairly compliantly.  He does not even try to break free, and no one in the group tries to help him.  We turn away from watching him being handcuffed and make our way to the tall central building.  We enter through a glass door that pulls us into a white room; white tiles line the floor along white walls and there appears to be an elevator.  We push a button to enter the elevator and there are no buttons inside the elevator except a thin rectangle slot next to the door.  I rummage around in the jacket that Chaud gave me to wear and find a card inside the front pocket with a picture on it.  It was the same man from the picture that woman was looking at on her shelf.  Chaud must have really killed her husband simply for something to wear inside this town.