Sorry guys this is a bit shorter I have my finals tomorrow, wish me luck. Also thank you for 9 reads I love you all, enjoy<3
I dreamt about a girl, I don't remember what she looked like but I remembered her name Brenda. I remember we got matching tattoos that said venom but the o was the women signal, we got them on our wrist. The dream felt so real, almost like a memory.
I woke up to Newt shaking me slowly.
"Eloise wake up we have to start the tour" Newt said
I just groaned in response
"Do you want your questions answered or not" he asked
"I am up" I said, throwing the covers off me and standing up. I followed him outside, he lead me to this big hut.
"This is the Homestead, in here there are rooms for the keepers to sleep in, the kitchen, the gathering room, and the slammer"
"What are keepers, who gets to be in the gathering room, and what is a slammer" I asked
"Oy, fine but these are the only questions I will answer until the tour got it?"
I nodded
"Alright there are 12 jobs here, every job has a boss we call them keepers. Only keepers can be in the gathering room, that's where we make all the rules and give punishments. Oh and the slammer is just a place that functions like a jail, it's in the back of the Homestead. Now can we go get breakfast now?"
"Yes I am starving"
He lead me into this room that was hot and filled with food.
"This Eloise is Frypan, he is the Keepers of the cooks." Newt whispered "Hey Frypan how's it going?"
"Hey Newt it's going alright, why are you here so early?" Frypan asked, his back to us
"Well turn around" Newt said
Frypan sees me and instantly smiles
"Hi I'm Frypan, do you remember your name yet?" he asked
"Yeah I do, it's Eloise nice to meet you" I replied
"Her nickname is El but she made it very clear that only her friends can call her that, and she claims she might let us call her that once she makes sure we aren't trying to murder her" Newt mocked
I instantly turned red, what is wrong with me? I don't act like this usually.
"And to answer your question I need to bring Mrs Eloise some food so we can start the tour early, I don't need any of these shanks staring at her all breakfast long" Newt said
Frypan just laughed. He handed us what looked like eggs, sausage, and orange juice. Newt brought me outside and we sat at the picnic tables.
"Ok can you please just explain what this place is to me?" I asked
"Ughh fine. Alright so this place is called the glade, at least that's what we call it. It's around 7 football fields long. Up there, so North west is the Homestead, you already know what that is. Then North east is the Gardens, there right behind your special tree. Behind us, so South west, is what we call the dead heads. It's a small graveyard, behind it is just a ton of forest but no one has ever gone far enough to explore it. Then Southeast is the Blood house, next to that is the farm. And right next to us is the Med rooms, where you were." He explained
"And the jobs?"
"Fine, I guess your tour has already started. There 12 jobs, The top 2 are First-in-command and Second-in-command. They pretty much just run the place, they make sure everyone is working and mostly decide punishment with the help of the keepers. Then there are the rest of the 10, Runner, Builder, Cook, Slicer, Track-hoe, Med-jack, Slopper, Bricknick, Blood housers, Baggers, and Map-makers. Runners run the maze every morning from dawn until they finish their route, they are athletic and smart. Builders build whatever we need them to build, they're strong but there's not much going on in their head. Cooks prepare meals with the supplies that are sent from the box. Slicers feed and raise livestock and then slice them to prepare for eating. Track-hoe work at gardening, weeding, growing, watering all that stuff. Then there are Med-jacks, they are the doctors per say, they read books on doctor stuff and know how to fix us. After that there are sloppers, they are people who don't really fit in anywhere so they clean and do the dirty stuff like cleaning the kitchen, toilets, showers, etc. The Bricnick repair any structures that need to be fixed, but then they do all the stuff sloppers do. Blood housers help maintain the Blood house and also slice stuff. The worst to have are baggers, they are in charge of burying the dead, they are also police and guards. Lastly there are the map makers, the runners do that too, they map out the maze." he finished
"What are you" I asked
"Well I am second in command but when I am not leading I am a track-hoe, I use to be a runner but" he stopped
I could easily tell that was a touchy subject. I made a mental note to not ask about that
"Right well let's actually start your tour" He said
