Loyalty Lies in the Wolf

The World Outside

The walls are all white marble with carvings of stories. The desk I sit at is in the back right corner near a particular story that caught my attention when I first saw it. Unlike most of the stories in the wall, this one was carved figures instead of words. In the first picture it shows a young boy leaving the massive white walls that surround the city we live in. The next shows a quiet, empty hill in front of him with the sun dancing in the sky happily. In the third it shows the sun setting on the boys face of horror. In the last picture a...

"Good morning my lovely students" Dr.Vincent interrupted my thoughts. His slim body barely took up the whole seat behind his desk he sat stiffly in. "Today's lesson is a little uncomfortable to talk about, but a very necessary lesson" he slowly fidgeted with a pen in his hands. "Does anyone happen to know why we have a barricaded city," the pen he held slipped between his fingers falling onto the ground with a click, but continued his speech, "and in fact the only city left?" I scanned around the room looking at everyone's expressions, some more exaggerated then others. A young girl in the front of the classroom made a face of horror as he mentioned the outside world.

A boy around my age sitting next to me tapped his plastic desk with the end of a pen repeatedly and grinned. "It's because we dominate society. We make the world our little bitch," the boy continued to grin, "nothing other then us lives."

Dr.Vincent smoothly rose from his desk. Without a word and almost to calmly he walked back to the boy. "We don't use that language in this city, and especially not in my classroom" Vincent stated as he whipped the kid's head with the ruler he had silently picked up from the bulky desk that sat in the front of the classroom. "Perhaps we did rule the world at one point if you consider it that way. The only problem we had was not knowing how to take care of the world. Back in 2,068 the world was in a war with each-other. Every country for themselves to take power over every piece of land. However they ignored the environment around them, the war was much more important to them."

"What was the environment like so long ago" a very thin boy in the middle of the classroom asked.

"Well, it was said to be a beautiful place. The climate varied in every place on earth. If you were near the middle it was hot, and if you were closer to the top or bottom it was very cold. The earth was covered in mostly water. Everywhere you went there was a creek, river lake or sea. Where there wasn't water thick forests spread out as far as the eye could see and was full of different animals" Vincent went on. I thought about the different animals we had learned about awhile back like a deer, or a wolf. Maybe even a fox, or something bigger like an elephant.

"What happened to the beauty" I spoke up. Everyone looked back at me confused by my words. The city I live in is ugly to me unlike the world I daydream about. White marble stained the middle quarter everywhere you looked. Maybe other quarters were different but the walls were giant and white as well.

"I'm very glad you asked Jasmine" he smiled and grabbed everyone's attention back. "The war that was going on eventually destroyed all of the beauty. Nuclear bombs were dropped causing destruction of much of earth. Countries bombed each other back and forth until nothing was left. The bombs left behind lots of nuclear radiation that distorted many things. It killed off most animals and people. If animals did survive they were mutated along with much of the vegetation.  The only surviving people are in this city" Dr.Vincent went on.

"Why aren't we aloud to see for ourselves" I spoke up again. Everyone seemed to flinch at the idea of leaving the city. To them the air would be poison to their lungs.

"Well this city is perfect the way it is. Everyone is perfect, everything works perfectly, The buildings are perfectly carved out of white marble. What on earth could possibly be better outside of these walls?" Vincent answered. "Besides it being perfect, it would be a crime to leave these walls because you would be ruining the order in this city. There are several people who have been caught leaving these walls that got put to death."