I wake up to Oscar, shaking me awake.
"Hey, wake up, something important is happening" He beckons to me.
I jump awake, and I look at him confused.
"Wow, you shot up quickly!" He chuckles, "Check this out!"
He gestures at the TV, and it turns on to reveal the Prime Minister standing beyond a large pedestal with the scripture "Democracy of Sun Side Republic" posted upon it.
The music ceases and she speaks.
"Good morning. Today I want to address everyone. Yesterday morning I made quite a shocking discovery, a Shadownite is here, in Pearlstone. Now, I would just like to say that nobody should feel alarmed. This is a welcome guest, I wanted to say to all of you to not be alarmed if you spot a Shadownite. We are ensuring security to ensure this doesn't happen again, but I can say with great assurance that we are safe, and to welcome them with open arms, thank you."
Woah. That was sudden, I wasn't even consulted, well, not that the Government would trust me.
"Well, looks like the cat's out of the bag then" Mabel says.
"Looks like it's time to take the next steps, I suppose you need to be enrolled in a school, I assume you've had an education?" Oscar's mum asks me.
"Yeah, nothing can be worse than the school I went to though!" I laugh.
"I can imagine, right, I'll contact Oscar's school, I assume that now the whole nation knows about you, you can show your face." Oscar's mum tell me
"I guess so, so... what now?" I ask
"I'll show you around town, it's Sunday, so school is tomorrow, but not today, how about I take you somewhere I like!" Oscar says enthusiastically.
I must admit I feel nervous, Oscar's mum has gone out to buy clothes, I can't live in Prison clothes for the rest of my life, for now I have some hand-me-downs. We leave the house, just me and Oscar, as I take in the brilliant blue and the fluffy clouds illuminated in the sky.
We walk, and I notice weird looks, people looking at me as if I'm an alien, I don't blame them, I practically am an alien at this point.
"So, do you have public transit where you're from?" Oscar asks me.
"We did, we had a bus shuttle and a very broken rail system, but they were shut down to cut costs a few years ago." I reply
"Ah, I see, well, I think you'll like this, this is my happy place!" Oscar gestures to me
We emerge to a large white brick building, with a large logo on it, it looks like two tracks interconnected, so I assume its rail, fancier than I've ever seen already, and I haven't even entered it!
"Right, this will sound geeky, but I'm a trainspotter." Oscar says to me
"Oh, cool. What is a trainspotter?" I ask
"Well, our railways have a lot of history, and a lot of cool trains, and me and a large community enjoy filming and logging them down and that." He says to me
How peculiar, I never knew people would like such obscure things, I guess they don't have to worry about getting shot at the end of the day.
"Wanna go inside?" Oscar asks me
"Oh, yeah sure!" I replied enthusiastically.
We walk into what I can only describe as a modern masterpiece, a wonder of architecture. Large screens displaying information, large marble pillars, Oscar told me that this building was 300 years old, refurbished of course.
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Purple Roses
ActionStep inside a world where two sides are separated, one being a lot happier than the other. Look through the eyes of multiple different people from different backgrounds, a family forged not by blood but by love. It isn't all pretty though, sometime...
