It's not that hard you know. It's not that hard making a living now, it's fairly simple. No one really knows what happened or why, all we know that everything is barren, and empty, and dead. People still live though, not as many as before but enough to get together and build a "Zone", basically a safe place. Although what's the point in making these walls anyways? Everything is dead out there, no animals or plant life, it's extremely desolate. sometimes you can come across ruthless bandits who are desperate enough to kill you on the spot and take everything including the clothes on your back. There's nothing more outside the walls besides that and the occasional rumors of some type of "dark" stuff but thats said to be far out enough in the parts of the land that people don't really choose to go to. Inside the walls is the community that's just barely big enough to call a small city. It's not hard living but it just isn't enjoyable, there's more suicides than any other way of death. It's depressing but, oh well.
"Dude come on already". Ace looks back at the person calling to her, pulling her out of her thoughts, it was Asher, one of the scouts in the faction. Yes, a faction, a faction that was made so the people within the zone can stay in order and you know, keep them safe, even though theirs nothing out there to even attack or vise-versa, beside the bandits but they're not a threat since they stay together in very small groups.
Asher put his hand on Aces shoulder, "We seriously need to go, he's going to get mad at us again..". By he they mean the so-called "leader" of the faction, Kor, he takes the faction just a little too seriously.
"Alright come on let's go.", Ace said with a drawn-out sigh. She was part of the faction, actually, she plays a major part in it since she was there since the beginning therefor making her the most experienced. She used to take it seriously at first but then quickly grew bored of it, she only stays with them because theirs not much else to do anymore. Besides its the only time she can go outside the walls, even if its just useless patrol rounds.
As Asher and Ace walk back up to the highest floor level in the zone, which is where they keep all of the equipment and grounds for training. It's also where the faction base is located. This floor is level with the top of the wall, giving an excellent vantage point of the barren ass world. The two step foot on the top level and just as expected Kor spots the two and definitely does not look happy, "Where the hell have you two been?! I could expect this from Asher since hes not even that important here," Asher gives out a insulted huff and looks at Kor with the "what the fuck man?" facial expression,"But from YOU?" Kor yells looking directly at Ace who could literally give less of shit about what he says, "Ace you're fucking one of the highest ranked archers in this faction, what if something happened while you were off doing god-knows-what!?" He yells, clearly pissed. Why does it even matter? It's not the first time Ace has walked off and this time definitely isn't going to be the last. She's had enough of his shit today looks him back in the eye and says, "Oh my god just shut up already! What do you mean "if something happened" what could possibly happen! Ive been here for some time now and, nothing ever happens! The most exciting thing that happens is the occasional group of bandits for some odd reason think they can threaten us..." She trails off her sentence realizing she doesn't want to argue anymore today. She quickly turns away and walks into the building nearby and finds an empty room and slides down against the wall, now sitting on the floor in a distressed position.
"Hey...you okay?", the familiar voice pulls Aces attention to look up at Asher who walks in slowly unsure is he's welcome to come over or not.
"I'm average.", Ace says with almost no hesitation with the noticeable tone of annoyance in her voice. To Ace, Asher is the closest thing she has to a friend in this place. Sure, theirs a good amount of people who live here but she has a tendency to get bored of them quickly, ignoring them till they finally leave her alone. Asher seems to actually understand her interests in why she wants to travel out so badly, and her as a person, which is probably why they get along so well. Not to mention when they do get sent out on patrol she often chooses to take Asher with her, plus he's pretty new to the team and needs to learn the ropes even though it's not that hard of a job.
"Asher I don't know what to do anymore..", she starts off with grabbing his attention, "I want to leave the zone for a while, you know? dammit I just want to go out further!"
Asher lets out a sigh, "You know you shouldn't go out there, especially at night, you don't know what kind of people are out there.". "What? You mean those "people" who are brave enough to call themselves a bandit? Hah, I can one shoot them in seconds with my bow, and you know that.", Ace says slightly smirking at the thought of actually doing that.
"I know you have the ability, but that doesn't mean you should go out and murder people!", Asher shouts briefly.
"It's not murder, if they're a threat to me.", she says quickly and quietly.
"It is murder and they wouldn't be a threat of you don't go out there in the first place!", he shouts as he raises his hands in the air in frustration. As this happens, Ace briefly gets up and start running out the doorway and starts making her way to the lower levels of the zone. Asher tried to run after her but he just doesn't have the speed as she does.
"Dude where are you going?!", he shouts down from the high lever, hoping she heard. Barely audible from Asher's level he was able to hear, "take a wild fuckin guess buddy." He sighs, knowing what she's doing and he can't do anything about it now.
