The War Is Over..Or Is It?

Chapter 2

"Are you nervous?" I asked my older sister, Margaret. Meg tossed her beautiful amber hair over her shoulder.

               "Of course not, I know that the analysis is going to observe my brain and place me according to what my brain is like. And I know what my brains like." She smirked like she was about to joke, but then when she turned from her packing she saw my face, she just laughed and plopped down next to me on the bed and hugged me. "I'll call you all the time and send you pictures of the ocean."

               "But you don't know that you'll get sent to the ocean. What if you get placed in the middle of the continent? Or... " My thoughts trailed off. "What if you are placed as a mining technician, underground." I said the last horrified. Meg laughed at me, but I saw deep in her eyes doubt in her convictions.

                "I know the analysis works and people get placed where they should, but what if the guild doesn't care where you live. What if your dream of living near the ocean doesn't come true?" I said pleadingly.

                 Meg glanced at her watch and jumped up off the bed. She shut her suitcase which she had been packing. "Well, I should probably get going. I think I'll just ride my bike. It's faster than driving during harvest season."

                 We lived in the farming guild. Our father was a man of physical work and liked to drive the tractors and work with soil, food,and fertilizers. Our mother was a agricultural biologists and worked with creating hybrid plants that could be grown for a longer period of years. Because of the fields and greenhouses, the agricultural guild community compounds were spread thinly throughout the farmland. In our compound father was the chief and had under his guidance many other workers. It was a very dynamic lifestyle with many boisterous, hard working, people that surrounded myself and Meg. Luckily our home was near the town where the analysis was being administered. Most people would have traveled for longer than that. Though we loved our friends and family with whom we lived closely, myself and Meg both wanted very much to leave this place.

                  I didn't know what I wanted to do when I was grown but I didn't worry. The two years between our last year of school and the analysis, we were taken on tours of the other guilds. On one of her tours, Meg had seen the ocean. She fell immediately in love with its vast unreachable beauty, and when she got home I heard all about it. Her computer screen became the ocean. She did some work for dad and earned money to buy blue paint for her room. Meg had her heart set on moving to the ocean; I didn't think she would be happy in her new guild if she wasn't near the ocean.

                   She rushed out of her room and down the tan painted hallway. I heard the wood floor creek as she rushed back.

                 "Bye," she said as she kissed my cheek. I laughed.

                 "Go on and good luck." I said taking her hand and walking with her down the hall. Our house was small and white. On the north east corner was the kitchen and directly connected to that was the dining room. There was a long living room down the center of the house and then a wing with three bedrooms and a bathroom.

                  As she put on her shoes, Meg called out goodbye to mother and father who were getting ready to for the day. Mom who had on an entirely black outfit over which she would put her laboratory coat rushed into the mud room. "It's a big day Meg, you should grab some breakfast." Mom said hugging her. 

                 "I already had something." Meg glanced at her watch. "And I'm going to be late."

                 Dad popped his head into the room. "Good luck, sweet pea." And then he continued on to retrieve coffee. 

                "Why don't you go to school and ride with Meg, Eden." Mom suggested. But school doesn't start until eight and it's only six forty." I pleaded. Mom gave me her "you do what I say, can't you see your sister is stressed" eyes. "Fine," I said as I grabbed my backpack and threw my hair into a ponytail.   

               The ride to the town was fun because it was mostly flat roads with a barrier on the edges. The trees were a wind barrier to keep the fields from eroding. We rode into town, keeping on the bike lane.

              The Bureau of Medicine and Healing was a white, tall, circular building with tall glass windows and a tall arched entryway. There were other ag guild kids and some kids from guilds like the teaching guild, the financial guild, and other guilds that were necessary to make the town run. Meg and I slowed down and walked our bikes to the building. The path was perfectly manicured and there were bushes and flowers along the building. Living in the agriculture guild resulted in very beautiful landscaping. I saw some disapproving eyes stare at us because we had two bikes on the sidewalk and were blocking the path.

            "Well, think about the ocean during the analysis and it'll all turn out fine." Meg hugged me and said thanks for riding with her. In her eyes, I could see nervousness, but not the fearful kind. I could tell she was ready for an adventure.

              As I rode away, I felt a tinge of yearning. I was bored of going to school and learning about the war and Doctor Conrad Gordon Nadelman and his amazing understanding of the human psychology. I wanted to do something, important, or impressive, or helpful, or world changing. 

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