Peyton's towns.

Tilly's tower

"I think they're awake" I heard a high pitched,foreign voice say.As my eyes opened i could see a pale old women,wearing a dark blue hat over her smooth hair.Her hair was peculiar though, as she had strands of dark maroon, and others were grey , some a light pink and some were even green.I stared at her, wondering where i was, i then tried sitting up, but my back hurt too much. The women immediately stopped me and told me not too try again, as my back was injured from passing out on the concrete. From the brief sight i got from sitting up, i saw a window, and i seemed to be extremely high up."Where am i? Who are you?" I asked calmly, i knew i wasn't endangered by being here, after all they were only old women."i would tell you, but we don't know either, we were just brought up here, we built this tower block for everyone to live in, and anyone that appears here makes their own floor, but we can get the lads upstairs to build it for you, you are in a bad way" she explained.
"What? No,no,no , sorry, i must leave right away, I'm on a journey to find the king"
"Oh,i see, but just for a few days,you stay here and us women will heal you"
I looked around and saw a tall,thin women with some kind of helmet on and as the foreign lady pointed at her, she said "this is Eleanor, she arrived here fourteen years ago on a bike, she was meant to meet her friend, but got knocked off course."
Eleanor walked over to me and saw me struggling to look around "let me get that for you"she said extremely softly.She twisted a handle that raised my back and I then turned to the left and saw a short, curly haired,over weight women, she seemed to have markings all over her face, and when i looked back at the other ladies, they had them too, in lighter colors. I looked again at the foreign lady as she pointed to the short lady with dark blue and pink lines dotted around her face "this is Holly, she was on a bus as a baby, when she crawled off over here, and i am Carmella, i was born here, but my parents were young and couldn't take care of me, so they left me in the hands of Adriano, he treated me well, but he left to go find his sister many years ago, when i was 40" she continued "Here in Tilly's tower, we believe that technology is the only way, and that change is for the better"I was shocked at this remark, i always believed that caring was far better than tech. " Tilly's tower? Who is Tilly?"I asked
"Tilly was the first person to live here, she owned the first block, for years it was abandoned , but Sebastian, Tilly's younger brother, found it here years later,with his sisters dead body, he cleaned it up and took in everyone who was lost into his custody, growing plants to eat, and for healing, he nailed a sign to the wood in Tilly's name, to remember here.He built the first five floors for people, and then the rest made their own, and that traditions have stayed with us through the years"
This was fascinating."How many are there of you living here then?"The short lady spoke up and answered "Approximately 98,and with you it's 99" She seemed to be working it out with a small machine, which she held tight in her dirty fingers."So,what did you mean by tech? Like, carts and railways or just stuff like reflector boots?" Of course i was proud of them, but i wanted them to think i was smart and up with the tech. I noticed the tall lady had taken off her helmet, revealing her short brown hair covering half her head, and the other half shaved. She saw me staring and said "No,no of course not, we mean like hoverboards,tele porters, phones and all that, we have reflector suits,and cars"
I was astonished at how developed this place was, i decided to try change the subject, as i was a little embarrassed at how they had cars and we had carts, i knew what they were, but i thought it was another one of the villagers myths."So, how long have you had this place?" I said nervously, incase of another awkward situation.
"No one really knows, could be thousands of years,or hundreds, or tens, we don't know, so enough of the questions about us, who are you?" Said Carmella.I was rather shocked at how she wanted to know about me, i wasn't used to being asked questions, in the kingdom we all knew almost everything about each other .
"Oh,my parents were Abigail and Lewis Ash-worth , and i'm Peyton Ash-worth"
"You're an Ash-worth?"
"Yeah,why?Did you know my parents?"
"Yes,i knew them very well"