I had thought it was over. The nights of waking up in a cold sweat. The visions. The death. The battles may have stopped, but the war hasn't.
This is the beginning. The beginning of the end.
"John!" Mom called. "John! Your school books just arrived!" I looked up from my journal and walked down the short hall that connected my darkly lit room to the living room. Mom was standing by the door talking to a man with a clipboard and a package. She signed something on the clipboard, and the man passed her a package.
I jogged up, took the heavy box and tore it open. Inside were three books. The first was a large green book about the history of New Crimson, the city I lived in. I opened it to find a page with a picture of President Crimson captioned "Our Undying Savior". I flipped through some more of the book, only to find more of the facts that had been drilled into my head for the past ten years of my life.
The next book was a smaller blue book filled with numbers and symbols. I glanced at some of the mediocre problems we were expected to solve. They all had some real world application, such as dividing rations among a family, calculating work, family, and break time percentages, as well as ration income for different jobs. Uninteresting, but useful.
The final book was a thin red pamphlet with a picture of President Crimson on it. We got the same pamphlet every year, and it was filled with about the same information as the ones I had gotten previous years. The pamphlet reviewed President Crimson's achievements, and outlined the 10 Legalities:
1- Unauthorized books, art , and other forms of media are to be turned in to nearby Peacemakers for immediate incineration.
2- Peacemakers can search any house they see worthy, discluding those owned or proteted by government officials
3- Peacemakers can arrest any person or persons they see as a danger to others
4- Only Peacemakers and government officiated body guards may carry and/or use weapons
5- All households in each section get rations proportionate to the size of the family and the amount of work the family does
6- All unauthorized technology can and will be seized by any nearby Peacemakers
7- All suspicous activity is to be reported to a Peacemaker immediantly
8- Do not stay beyond the city wall
9- Any proclaimed "history" taking place before President Crimson united the city is false and should be treated as such
10- Any person found spreading infectious ideas about Our Undying Savior will be faced with a penalty of a life sentence, or death
All of these were reasonable, for they kept the citezens of New Crimson safe, after all we were the only humans left. All of us fed the same food, taught the same ideas, and ruled by the same man, "Our Undying Savior, President Crimson".
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The Dropper
ActionHighest Rank: 599 in Action The Dropper is a place of no return. When you're put here, you never escape. If you step out of line, you're dropped. No one cares about your past. No one cares about you. All moral values vanish. In short, welcome to h...
