Isabella Wells sat in the house of Mr. and Mrs. Wells, the people whom we know to be Jone's parents. She was practically Jone. She lived, and the child that was to have been had to the two parents died. Jone died. He had never been born. These people lived their lives completely different. They were ruled by being whom they didn't know, and he was very demanding. The whole community was ordered to work. Nothing else. All citizens were given chips in their head to keep them from sleeping.
Isabella didn't want to live this way. As soon as she had started to walk, she had ripped the chip out of her head.
"What will they do?" she always asked. "Send me to a better community?"
Isabella was completely opposite from Jone, as she broke the rules. All of them.
In this community, children weren't allowed an education, as the government thought that the citizens may overthrow the government if they had an education.
Isabella educated herself, and the government knew it too. They couldn't kill her though. They wouldn't kill a worker. And they couldn't electrocute the chip inside her head. She didn't have one.
The worst part about the setup of the community was that they had no idea whom they worked for. There were some lost words in this community that no one knew, but Isabella knew them. She was smarter than everyone in the community. Even the government. There was a hip place where all the kids went, especially on weekends. It was a place called "the Reveal House." In it, children could find out their future and receive a fortune. They were given a ticket which told them their fortune by the Tellers. It was Saturday, and Isabella usually went there on Saturdays.
"Mom, I'm going to the Reveal House, I'll be back in a bit."
"Alright, but when you get back you have work."
Without a response, Isabella went outside and started walking to the Reveal House.
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Jone was of course in the Reveal House of another dimension. He was the first one to travel through another dimension, but because this was the day they first traveled through dimensions and found out about the Magic Mirror Jone didn't think it would change the course of history and change the future in any great way.
This Reveal House was much similar to the one on Earth, and in the 1880's. However, this one served a different purpose.
This building was full of Tellers, the robots who shared fortunes among the children of the community. Jone walked around, looking at the different robots who were Tellers. The place looked happy, and was full of a good atmosphere, something Jone needed after traveling through four dimensions, and finding the world in a time of darkness.
Jone found a quarter on the ground and decided to insert it into a machine. The machine had a robot teller inside it with a swami hat on. "The Amazing Zandaroe" he was called. He said, "let the Amazing Zandaroe reveal your future!" A ticket was ejected from the machine. Jone read it:
You will find someone soon,
A lost life,
But you mustn't wait,
You must work,
And that lost one, you will
find.
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Places: The Reveal House (Places #2)
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