Type: Prompt
The year is 2020 and the world has spiraled out of control. You remember the chaotic time of 2016, yet looking back it was seemingly peaceful compared to how time was now. You were left wondering, how did the world fall apart in 4 short years?
Any president who was elected had been assassinated at the end of 2016. Technology was unable to stay stable for long periods of time, the internet had crashed, for the foreseeable future. You had knowledge of all these events, yet you felt so detached. What was the world before 2016? You did not know.
You woke up in a dusty basement, coughing up dry air. Your hands laid on your chest feeling the ever so slight thrum of your heart, it wasn't really beating. However you felt as if you had been sleeping for a while. There was no one here with you, you had no way of identifying yourself.
Slowly you sat up squinting your eyes as the dirt filled sunlight crept through the battered windows to the side of you.
You could see outside, but you had no longing to see it. Who are you? Why are you here? Where was here? These questions raced through your mind, yet your heart was still lazily tapping. Breathing air burned your lungs, it felt like ice and fire at the same time.
Quick footsteps echoed through the floorboards. Who was here? You had no time to react as you stood up, face to face with a young girl.
"It's about time!" She gushed.
You were left with no thought but confusion as she grabbed your wrist and began to lead you away from the room you awoke in.
"I've got to tell the others," she sniffled. You didn't understand why but the tears that ran down her face were a ray of hope for the world that was crashing down.
