Casium

Dorago

You wake up to annoying, Trixie Heart pop music blaring in your ear. As you slowly open your eyes you are blinded by the sunlight that pours in from your bedroom window. You grab your holowatch from your spotless nightstand and answer it, already knowing who is calling you.

"It's ten o'clock in the morning, Sasha." you groan.

"Get up! Dorago is on the move!" Sasha yells into your ear.

"What? I thought he wasn't leaving until next Thursday!" you say with alarm in your voice.

You jump out of bed, rush over to your closet, and start to pick out an outfit as Sasha continues.

"Well it looks like he changed his plans. Maybe he's on to us." says Sasha.

"I highly doubt that." you say as you throw on a white t-shirt and some black jeans, "Where are you?"

"In your kitchen." says Sasha casually.

"Wait, what?" you say.

You put your holowatch on your right wrist and rush out of your room into the hallway. You walk into the kitchen at the end of the hallway and see a woman with brown skin and curly black hair devouring the doughnuts you just bought yesterday.

"How did you get into my house?" you ask her as you snatch the doughnut box away.

"Wait! I'm not done yet!" she says, reaching out for the box, "I was staking out Dorago all night without any food! I'm starving!"

"I offered to bring you some fried rice, but you said no." you say as you put the doughnuts in your fridge.

"I wasn't hungry then." says Sasha, "Here. I think you might want this back."

She hands you the spare key that you keep under your door mat.

You take the key and say, "Let's go. We have to catch up with Dorago."

You and Sasha walk out into the hallway and then into the living room. You grab you brown tranchcoat, that is laying on a chair and follow Sasha out the door.

You place the key back under your door mat and get in Sasha's black, hydrogen powered car. She taps at the gps in her car with a confused look on her face.

"What's wrong?" you ask as the automatic seat belt straps you in.

"Nothing. Dorago stopped at this location outside of Monticello County." says Sasha, pointing at the gps.

You look at it and feel a wave of dread wash over you.

"That's Monticello Road." you say.

"I can see that." says Sasha.

"That's where I grew up at." you say.

"Oh." mumbles Sasha.

She looks down, knowing what happened there.

She starts the car and says, "Let's get this over with."

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     You and Sasha drive along Monticello Road. Tall, golden wheat grows to the right of you and thick, messy forest is to your left. The road is old and bumpy because no one cares to renovate it. You look out the window at the abandoned farm houses and barns as they pass by.

"Atleast he didn't go into the city." you say.

"Yeah. Things could have got messy if he went to a populated place like downtown Monticello or San Fran." says Sasha, "Sometimes I forget places like this exist in 2182. It seems like a thing of the past."