Apocalyptic Mysteries

Eri Gets a Machete

 Eri Gets a Machete

The girls arrived at Santee without any major crashes.

Eri parked her car. "Well, I can drive. Sort of..." she looked up at the school, "Santee still looks magnificent."

"Yeah," Lina said and walked into the main building, "Do you know where they stay?"

Eri followed Lina, "Nope."

A knife landed near Lina.

"WHAT THE BUTT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE?!" Lina yelled, "I AM CLEARLY A YOUNG GIRL BY THE SOUND OF MY VOICE!"

A teenaged Pakistani girl peered over the edge of the second floor's railing, "Oof. It IS just a kid. So-rry."

"Shouldn't you have been able to tell by my voice?" Lina looked up at the girl.

"Oh please, have you ever heard Shoji's- never mind, you wouldn't know him. What's your business here? If you guys are assassins, well, we have machetes," she said.

"We were... looking for some people," Lina said.

"That makes you sound even more like assassins but okay. What kinda people?" she asked.

"People in association with the Santee Resistance," Eri said.

"Are there Vancouvers here? Tyler and Nancy Vancouver?" Lina asked.

"I believe we have something like that. Let me just check the list," she said, "I'm Amani by the way."

"My friend also wants to check with her family," Lina said.

"Oh yeah. Linh, Aaron, and Andrew Lau please," Eri said.

"Oh yeah! They're on the Canada trip right now, gathering resources and seeing how our neighbors up there are doing!" Amani said.

"So they're all alive?" Lina asked.

"Yes, they all are," Amani said, and she started to fiddle with her machete.

"Oh, good," Lina relaxed a little bit.

"Do you need anything else?" Amani asked.

"When they get back, tell the people we named that we're alive, and that I miss them and would like to see them soon," Lina requested.

"Yeah, I'd do that if I had a name to tell these people," Amani said.

Lina looked towards Eri, a silent request of permission to give out their names.

Eri nodded, and Lina said, "Lina Vancouver and Eri Lau. I don't exactly trust you yet, but if I have to, I'll give you our names."

"Mhm thanks! It's nice to meet you Lina and Eri. Would you guys like any zucchini from the garden? We have a lot," Amani offered.

"You know, that'd actually be really nice," Lina said.

"Okay, I'll be back in a moment," Amani said and walked away.

"I want that machete she has," Eri commented.

"I DON'T want you to have the machete she has," Lina said.

"Wait, I can already get one," Eri conjured a machete similar to Amani's.

Lina rolled her eyes.

"I'm back!" Amani called out with a wicker basket of zucchini. She threw it over the railing for one of the girls to catch.

The girls did not expect for her to throw it. Lina, using her awesome speed, caught it right before it hit the ground. "That was a bit of a challenge."