Untamed

Zip Bridge

A loud voice coming from the speakers quickly grabbed my attention. I looked up at the metal ceiling of the cart as I carefully listened to the driver's raspy voice.

"So for most of you guys here, this is your first time ridding the Zip Bridge," he pointed out, pausing to take a short, shaky breath, "Due to the Newly Added, I assume."

I looked around me at the other young Amadahy members on board, noticing that most of them were about my age. They all sat eagerly, as they're eyes traveled from the windows to the ceiling where the speakers where. A few of them fidgeting in their seats slightly.

The announcement continued at a slow and steady place, "I've decided to narrate a little as we make our way towards Vada. Explain the different Cliques for you guys," he said. And I could basically see the proud smile growing on his face, "I think it would be nice for you to get a better picture of the world around you."

We glided over the Fenna Clique and he briefly described their ways of life. How they lived to help others and creat beautiful music with their minds. And how they put other people before themselves no matter what the conditions.

Their buildings were defiantly not made of a blue glass like the ones in Amadahy. They were smaller looking, with bright shades of violet pink coating their walls.

My eyes were glued to the window as I watched them walk around their city, smiling and waving at everyone. Their heart shaped marks, visible on their wrists.

I swallowed hard, slightly smiling back at them. The amount of color and expression in that Clique was almost overwhelming.

Just moments later, we were crossing over the second trench that divided Fenna from Edna. My mom leaned her head on my shoulder, clearly not very interested in seeing the other Cliques.

"And as you can see," the speakers began to chirp once more, "We are now entering Edna."

I rolled my eyes at the announcer, even though he couldn't see me.

Obviously we were entering Edna. It was printed in huge letters on a sign the size of the ocean.

I sighed, turning my head back towards the window.

The difference between this Clique and the last one, was drastic. The ground was a dark black color, holding small splits in the rocks, revealing bright red and yellow lava-like patterns. People dresses in all black, strutted around the city, some of their eyes a dark reddish brown color.

Barley anyone was smiling.

Almost every member seemed to have tattoos covering their bodies, making it almost impossible to see the flame shaped marks on their wrists.

I focused my attention on their tall dark buildings, the windows seeming to shine brighter then the sun. It was such a strange way of living. My eyes glided across the roads till I found a couple of children prancing around in the streets. They were laughing and caching each other, attempting to shoot fire out of their figures.

I sat back in my seat, almost frightened of how dangerous it would be for someone to rase a child there.

My stomach tightened as I though of a few of the Newly Added children growing up in a place like that. I'm so glad I'm Amadahy.

We passed the Channah Clique next, and I was mesmerized at how many animals and plants they had living in their city. If you were walking through the woods there, and you stumbled into town, you wouldn't notice because it didn't look any different.

They barley wore any clothes in Chennah. A majority of them were only wearing green pieces of fabric in a few choice places, but other then that, they didn't really seem to care about other people or what they thought. They only seemed to care about farming and creating different types of medicines from herbs.

I had to quickly shut my eyes and look away a number of times, because a few people were too reveling for me.

"And here we are," I heard him say finally.

I sank in my seat when we finally crossed the last trench and entered Veda. I was there.

I gasped when I saw the buildings Veda had. It's white building crawling high into the air. Their roads were everywhere, on the ground, in the sky. The sight, almost too incredible to believe it was real.

"Wow," I heard my moms stunned voice from beside me as she sat up to see through the window easier.

"I know."