It's been said that no one can survive a night in the Sterile Desert, but we have to. There's no way we would have survived another night in The Dome, not after what we did. We're all scared that our efforts to escape will be useless and that we'll die here, but I won't let us die. We've come too far to just let death take us away so easily. I can't give up now because I've learned too much and must know more about the Government's real motivations. And I can't give up because of Asher. He's still trapped in that place and I promised him that I would come back for him. So that's what I have to do and I won't quit until he is back here safe with me.
Then there's this baby. I don't know whose it is or if it's a boy or a girl or if it has a name, but we have no choice but to take it with us. If we leave it behind, the Government might find it and take it back to The Dome and brainwash it. Or maybe They were the ones who dumped it to begin with, in which case Their reason for doing so is painfully clear. The baby seems to like to laugh a lot, especially when it's with Kyungsoo and I. It always smiles and babbles in gibberish and I think it's cute. The others think we should just abandon it somewhere and leave it, especially Baekhyun, which I find rather surprising because he used to be a caretaker, but I know we can't do that. I don't know what it is about this baby, but something tells me that it will be an important part of our survival and an even bigger part in finding out the truth about The Dome.
With the baby, that makes 12 of us trying to survive the Sterile Desert. Rationing out the supplies we have and trying to find more is hard enough, but the baby makes it harder since it cries every time it gets hungry. We don't know what to feed it, but we spare the biggest ration of the little supply of water we have for it. We don't know if water is what we should be feeding it, but we don't question it much anymore because the baby likes it well enough that it stops crying.
None of us think we'll make it out of the desert alive, but I know we have to. We've only been through a small portion of the journey to whatever life we're meant to have and to the most important thing we could ever have--the truth.
Jongin, 18, 4/17/2042
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A look into the second book of "The Dome" series! It's not much, but I've got to save the exciting stuff for the chapters! ;)
Let me know what you think of it in the comments and I'll be back with this in a few days to start the next adventure! :)
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The Invasion (Part 2 of the KaiSoo Fanfic Series)
FanfictionNow that they've escaped The Dome, Jongin, Kyungsoo and they're friends are stranded out in the Sterile Desert. With no sense of direction or survival necessities, they meet Taemin and Jonghyun, who take them to Kohara, an isolated colony of people...
