Heal my Heart

Chapter 40 - Announcement

"Thank you everyone for coming to this meeting. We have some news from the going home comity." Allie introduced the meeting. She then left her place to Gordie and Bean.

"Hey guys. So, yesterday we discovered some secret files concerning the reason we're here and who put us there." Bean began.

"Yeah, I'm sorry to tell you such bad news but the files were about some experiments conducted on us during our childhood. Apparently when we were still little babys, our parents agreed to have us be used as some kind of experiment subjects. They injected us with something that could make us develop the powers we now have." Gordie went on embarrassingly.

"Then they decided to put us here to see if we could start a new society based on those powers and maybe develop some kind of new advanced mankind...I know it sounds bad and I'm sorry but absolutely all of our parents signed this agreement." Bean finished.

The whole church was silent, people too shocked to say anything.

"I know it's a huge shock and that you feel betrayed by your own family but we have to stay strong and united even knowing that." Allie stepped in.

Her intervention didn't reassure the crowd at all and people became progressively agitated, untouched by their leader's words.

"Of course, we're not giving up on trying to get back home but we thought you all had the right to know why you're here and who did that." Gordie said.

Some people were now crying, other began chatting with each other, trying to make sense to the disturbing news. Someone spoke up.

"Is that true, Grizz? We're here because our parents decided to?" the person asked.

Grizz was caught off guard by the question. He didn't understand why anyone would ask his opinion on the matter or anything. He was no leader and people clinging to his guidance disturbed him. He slowly stood up from his seat in the front row.

"Hum...Yeah it's true. I saw the files myself and they all had signed it. So, I understand how crazy and evil this sounds but they were the ones to do that to us." Grizz said with an apologetic voice.

"What are we gonna do from now on?" another one asked him.

"Yeah, do we really have to do things according to their fucking plans and build a fucking new society?" someone else addressed Grizz.

"Hum, I'm not the leader so you should ask that to Allie, but as far as I'm concerned, I don't think we should react to this news with even more hatred. It's not about what they initially wanted us to do or not but more like what we have to do to survive. I don't think we could survive this situation without sticking together and forming some kind of society. We shouldn't think about them or consider their goals anymore, we have to live for ourselves. And if this means organizing a new town like we're doing, that's fine by me." he answered the crowd.

Everybody was silently listening to him, hanging on his every word.

"As Allie said, we have to stay strong and stay united." he finished.

The whole town felt reassured after his little speech and started to feel more at ease.

"Yeah, thank you Grizz but I'm gonna take it from here." Allie told him coldly.

"We're gonna keep searching for ways to get home but in the meantime, everything stays the same. We still have adjustments and changes to make but this town is now functioning pretty well, let's keep it that way." Allie added, but nobody was paying attention to her anymore.

"We're slowly running short on vegetables and food though so we'll have a farming group explore the forest next month to maybe find a bigger land to grow vegetables and everything on. If you wanna volunteer for that, please go find Luke. That's everything for today, thank you for your attention." she finished before heading towards the exit.