BFB STARVATION AU

31 - 6 feet underneath

OH MY TREE!! THURSDAY!!
also just realized how many spelling errors there are in this book because I write and write with the flow of some weird creative thing and forget to check the spelling.. lol

anyways, hope y'all like this one...

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WARNING: death, memory loss, blood, gore, starvation, dehydration, cannibalism, guns, weapons, violence, graveyards

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Leafy and Ruby, hand in hand, search through the forest for Firey. They look high, low, and everywhere in-between, but they still can't find the light that turns Leafy's frown upside down and her delusions to dust.

Leafy bites her tounge as to not cry, wondering if something bad perhaps happened to him. He's smart, but she knows dementia is taking its toll on him. But he can't have just disappeared! Where could he have gone?

As she's walking, her attention is to her own thoughts, so she only realizes she was about to fall when Ruby grabe her arm to stop her. She doesn't speak, only gesturing forward.

Leafy follows Ruby's gaze to find what she was scared of...

Unconscious, laying on the grass, is Firey. Leafy grabs his arm but it's...

Cold?

And his flame... it's smaller...

Dead.

But... he looks so peaceful...

Ruby pulls Leafy away, "Leafy, let's like- go... You've been staring at his body for fifteen minutes..."

Leafy slowly signs 'sorry', then grabbing onto Ruby's hand, taking one last look at Firey, and then shedding a tear.

The two walk back to the others, Leafy's usually wide grin now no happier than one who's standing infrontof death himself.

Pin runs towards where she sent the farmers, wanting to witness this "fight for water" and also put an end to it. If Cloudy is dead, then they have no way to tend to the plants besides using he water that the other objects are trying to drink! She has to stop them!

She then catches up to where the farmers are and they are all gathered in a circle, drinking the water from an object-made pond. They're all getting pushed and shoved around by each other. This is NOT allowed.

"Hey! No. fighting!" Pin scolds them, then outing a hand on her up and continuing, "What. are. you. all. doing? The. water. should. be. rationed! Now. that. Cloudy. is. dead, we. need. to. use. some. water. for. watering. the. crops!"

X looks to the sides a little bit ashamed, "Sorry, I... couldn't stop them..."

"It's. okay," Pin pays his arm, "You. tried... Now. I. need. you. to. help. gather. then. up. and. make. sure. they. follow. the. rules... Then, bring. then. to. the. body. pile... Okay?"

X nods and walks with their group, heading off to where Pin instructed them to go, and reluctantly leaving the water.

Pin smiles and takes a few sips of the water, then deciding to, next, find the explorers and hunters and out them into set rules too...

Four watches as his groups devour the water in the orange basin and, with confusion, realizes that the basin is familiar... Basketball? Had Cloudy, before death, use her corpse to make a sort of bowl for the water? Why? Did he not know that others in his own group made a basin of their own?