My eyes fluttered open, I groaned and sat up, my brown hair swirling around me in waves. My head was pounding and I glanced around at my surroundings only to notice I was in a field. I stood up, slowly and tried to remember what had happened and why I was in a field. The smells of various flowers filled my nose and then was overtaken by the foul stench of death. That's right...the Infection, the only thing I remember... when I looked down the hill I saw a town that was pretty average, if you call a fifty foot wall surrounding it 'average'.
I followed the narrow path that felt familiar too me to the town, dragging my feet. My head was pounding even worse and I felt suddenly tired. I couldn't pass out now, the town was too close to give up. When I finally reached the wall, a strange commotion was heard from the top of it. Nothing I could make out though. I waited a couple minutes then the doors opened, I casually walked into the town feeling several eyes on me.
"T...Taylor?" I heard a frail voice call. I turned to find the voice only to be met with a fragile old women, just the sight of her warmed my heart. Was that my name? Taylor? A smile crept on my face.
"Do you remember me?" She asked her brown eyes filled with hope. I felt my face fall and my eyes cast down to the ground.
"I see. That was too be expected. You took a huge risk we were lucky enough to even get you back." She bluntly said, I brought my eyes back to hers, and her eyes were filled with sadness now.
"I'm sorry.." Those two words suddenly came out. They shocked me.
"It's all right, Well then might as Well re-introduce myself. I'm the towns elder Joan, I make the decisions. You are Taylor Baxman, 17 years old, prodigy." She said. Prodigy?
"Yes, you are the soldier and care for everyone. A wonderful leader, and you are incredibly smart." She said, which made me realize I said that out loud. It was then my surroundings made sense, a wall to keep out unwanted visitors, The infection. The reason the world was the way it was. Suddenly a young boy with shoulder length orange hair, and bright green eyes ran towards us, he was wearing glasses and a lab coat.
"Joan, h...he, he didn't survive the Infection. " The young Man said. Joan froze, her eyes widening and filling with tears. The Man walked forward, blood was splattered on the sleeves of his lab coat and I felt myself cringe.
"Would you like to see him?" He asked Joan and I. Joan had already started walking towards the hut, I followed automatically.
Upon entering the sight in front of me was terrifying. A boy maybe 15 or 16 years old was laying motionless on the table his gray eyes bleeding, it seemed like everywhere that could bleed had bled. Their were scratch marks in the room, I glanced over the boy again and noticed he was bound at the hands and legs, a chain also was put around his throat.
"Why was he bound?" I found myself intrigued. The Man who had introduced himself as Hamilton had been the first to answer.
"He had the Infection, it caused distemper. If we hadn't he would have killed some of us, I'd rather not be responsible for more people dying from not only the Infection spreading but because a shell of a pretty much brain dead boy decided to rampage and kill everyone. " I nodded in understanding, my heart went out to the boy in front of me.
"He was...my grandson...Avery was his name..." Joan finally said tears falling down her face. After looking at me for a while she finally told me:
"Well the 'Welcome Back' ceremony will be tonight. Your hut is at the end of the dirt road, on the bed should be a dress for you too wear." She smiled weakly then turned back time the boy, why wasn't she crying anymore? Shouldn't she be a mess? Or maybe she is just in shock, or maybe she was prepared? I nodded in understanding and headed out to give Joan some time alone. I headed down to my hut and stopped in front of it.
Will this be the way I'll live from now on? How did I handle it before? I guess I should get ready though...
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