The Universe Ends With You

Chapter 4

Zy's knee injury had finally healed to the point, that it wouldn't bleed when he walked. Now it was just an extremely large scab.

Rolan had recovered from what had happened 2 days ago, but he wasn't quite the same as he was before. And he never would be. Rolan had been changed, Zy knew that- but he didn't know how or why. Maybe he never would.

Zy walks to Rolans room, to see Rolan, dead looking- but he was still breathing. Rolan's departed hair follicles stare at Zy, and Zy changes his gaze. His thoughts enlarge about this guy, Rolan, that he had only met 19 days ago, which he felt obligated to stay with...even though he was doing fine on his own. At least before the Rant. Zy looks at Rolan's, overhanging stomach. He does drink, a lot from the looks of it...how had he never noticed it? Rolan just kept it a secret. Zy guessed.

After a moment Rolan shifts, and Zy decides to stop staring at him.

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The Gazorpians were dead. All of them but a few that had been traded at their birth. Fink. Fink: the Gazorpian that was traded in the last trading season, traded for a few hundred Units. Didn't even one that he was a Gazorpian. He was raised as a slave. A slave that would rarely see the star, that was their sun. He was lucky to even see light. Real light. He always saw Ambrosia torches. *Ambrosia: a mineral that is known for its healing properties, as well as it easily burning abilities, usually a yellowish color.* Fink walks down the long tunnel that was his mineshaft, as he mined for Ambrosia, the material that this planet used like it was air. What planet was this? Fink didn't know. He was only a broken toy, that was never played with. Never spoken to. Fink was a true slave. That was all he knew. Other than his name. He knew: his name, his job, and that he was a slave. Ambrosia was also his only source of food. Fink, usually called...a very obscene term: also starting with F and ending with K. Fink had no clue what this word meant. And neither did he want to know.

Fink dug more and more in the planet that he had no clue what it was. Fink wasn't fed well do he was on the larger side. Which was good, by his owners standards. His owner loves Gazorpians, because they cannot starve to death. And the less that eat: the stronger they get- or at least the larger they get.

Fink...

Fink slams his head on the wall- scared by the voice that he had just heard.

Fink...

There it was again- Fink barley understood Rosin- but he knew a little- or at least his name.

There had been no one beside him or even in his view.

I will free you...

Fink- only slightly understanding: shook his head.

I can help you...

Fink ate some Ambrosia, that was protruding from the wall.

If you do not listen...

Fink's pale blue skin tingled.

You will be trapped.

Fink listened to the voice: slowly understanding its point. Telling him how to escape. He listened to the voice- faithfully. Until he would be free.

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Zy leaves the house- ready to find his friends. The friends he had made in this town. Over the past 19 days. First he had met: Bez. Bez was a short stalkier child, but he was a scavenger- like Zy had been before the injury. Bez survived on his own- and lived in a hole just down the road from Rolan's shack.

Zy would often go to Bez's hole- to talk to him- or play Zagor- *Zagor: a game very similar to the game of Jacks, that had been played on Earth many, many years ago.* Bez, was a very odd child. First he wouldn't never use the word "or" or in Rosin: pronounced "omor". And he would never tell Zy, why. Second, Bez was an "inventor" as he called it. He would just put screws and wires together till it make a spark- or a fire. Among other various random things, that Bez would do.

Zy, now standing just outside of Bez's hole. Peers into it. No light was coming out of it. Bez, was not there. Zy slowly walked/limped back to the shack that he is lived in. At least till he got his Zoomer back, from Rolan. After he got his Zoomer back, he would leave Rolan, and never look back. At least that is what he told himself. He didn't know if it would ever come to be true, or not.

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Bez, held his short chubby are out, holding up a spark plug. It was very old, and he could tell. Or at least he thought he could tell. Bez jumped on a Zoomer...Zy's Zoomer, that he had bought off of Rolan for a hundred and twenty-one Units. He never brought the Zoomer to his...hole, he would always leave it hidden...hidden a mile or two from his hole, so if Zy ever came he wouldn't get suspicious. Of course Bez did like Zy, but he would prefer to have a Zoomer, as well as a friend.

Bez pushed the ignite button that sputtered and then ignited after a few seconds. The old thing- needed some new parts- basically a whole new engine. And a new Oxi part or two, which he would have to go to the city to get, and the nearest city was about 1200 Kilometers away. And of course they didn't use Earth measurements, on their planet, everything was measured in units, which caused a lot of confusion amongst travelers, that a unit was how they measured long distance and it was currency.

But, Bez, knew that it was going to be a long trip and he needed to be sure the old Zoomer was going to be in good enough condition, to survive the journey.

Bez, began zooming back to his hole on the Zoomer.