As my brother lay screaming on the concrete, I could do nothing but let him wrap his hand around my finger.
'Sssshhhhh, Deislap sshhhhhhh. It's OK, I've got you. ' As I saw him squirming I could do nothing more than just let the tears trickle down my face. Being a poor family, we didn't get medical treatment, that was scrapped in 2079, just after the new drug came out. 'Lie asleep, don't stir, quiet down and sleep.' before I could finish the lullaby my mother used to sing, I heard a familiar voice. Rotiart was my best friend, I had only met him a few weeks ago, but he was special. To be honest, he was my only friend.
'How you doin'?' he said quietly attempting not to disturb my brother.
'Fine, you know, fine....' I trailed off before I got into details
'You know, there's a guy down in the market place he's in a green trailer, doing free medical examinations for kids on the street.' he nodded at me.
'I don't know I don't trust those people-' he cut me off
'I got done by him.' he gestured to a bandage wrapped around his wrist. He had been burnt by his mother when he was young and so he ran away. At least he had the choice, but now was not the time to think about my parents. I took a moment to think about his offer and nodded.
'Alright, I'll go, for Deislap. But Evarb has gone out so stay with Lufitip. Please.' he smirked and nodded. I stood still for a bit, he pointed to the road.'Right, to the trailer,' I said as I picked up my sleeping brother and trudged down the street. It was a disturbing sight on the way to the market place. Children draped all over the pavement and many lying dead on the street. Not many children died those days, it was virtually impossible unless, which is what happened to these children, they got killed by the Dedaol. The kids would try to get food or money off them and they would kill the starving children. It sickened me. They would ride around in big carriages and expect people to move out of the way and bow to them. If I could, I would have got right in there and killed them all. But I can't. They put, what they call, dleifecrofs all over their things. They thought we were all scumbags. As I neared the rows of trailers, my brother started to wake up and no sooner than he woke up, he started to cry.I rocked him gently and started to walk faster, attempting not to draw attention to ourselves. As I could just make out a big green trailer with a white sign and a red cross on it, I started to get extremely scared. What if Rotiart had been lying to me, what if it was a trick, 'no' I thought 'he wouldn't do that.' I slowly lifted my hand and knocked on the cart door. Almost instantaniously a man peered from the darkness. He was quite big but not fat, I was guessing he spent a lot of time weightlifting as he had huge arm muscles, he had stubble on his face and a large tattoo on his arm. I had only been educated for three months in my life so I couldn't read what it said, not properly anyway. I stood wide eyed at him until he started to look at my screaming brother alarmed.
'Come in, you must be Enola.' I took a step back when he said this, his voice was gruff and scary, he gave a smirk. 'Look kid, I don't stalk you or nothin' Rotiart told me about you.' I stood still in horror that my best friend may have given out personal information about me. 'You comin' in or what?' he said starting to get annoyed. I nodded and slowly stepped up the step and into his trailer. It was very dark and it smelt like dust. 'Right.' he said getting out a belt I guessed had medical equipment in. 'This must be Deislap.' I gulped, nodded and gently handed him the squirming three year old. He lifted him to the swinging light bulb as if to examine him. He made sounds like 'um' and 'ah' and then he he pulled my brother into a hug and went to the trailer door.
'Wait, where are you going?' I said.
'Oh, your brother is in a crucial state,' he said calmly kicking open the trailer door, 'there's nothing more we can do.' I looked up at him stunned as he dangled my brother out of the door and dropped him. I leaped to my feet.
