LIVING OFF

chapter 10 •KNOW•

3350 words for ya'all.
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It would be an understatement to say that the nameless adult was the one leading the whole place but things are going different, it's running down to cinders.

Well the adult refused to give name to address himself, he stays nameless to the gracefield children despite the display of his serial number at rare occasions and no other occupants calls him by his name either. He is simple called 'mister', now that's a pain.

The whole place is underneath the ground, Human habitation is far safer when unseen in a world where execution is at it's finest and in all honesty Norman was thankful for it.

B 06 - 32 is a rather big and complex place, filled with tunnels, dozens of functional stations (except the control room as it was destroyed intentionally by the adult himself, his reason is to deactivate the self-destructive mode on the system) and rooms that could accommodate atleast a hundred occupants. It also has it's own source of clean water, electrical supply and even plantation.

It's a very pleasant suprise and they couldn't have appraised William Minerva more than they did now.

Any how, getting along with the other inhabitants isn't exactly the trouble they all are facing, it's the hostility of one of them.

If Ray wasn't glaring, his eyes would trailing on anyone he deemed suspicious, he's always on high alert that even silly little jokes couldn't get past him without gathering a scowl from his pale face.

Ray settled himself on the archives, it's a grown habit from gracefield that he holds a book at hand to either calm his nerves, learn more about the place and have more knowledge and to pass time. Now it's the latter, Ray is lazily doing his own research of whom to trust.

Ray was leaning on one of the bookshelves, eyes transfixed on a page, he flips a page and something slips and fall to the ground soundlessly.

Ray looked at the paper on the ground. He tilted his head and crouched down to reach and pick it up.

The paper looked delicate and smooth, flipping it, Ray realized that it was a letter. Sealed with a red wax and stamped, the letter is slightly crinkled but it still looked quite neat.

And the letter reads:

To the children, Welcome to b 06 - 32.

Ray smirked and he reads further into the words that the letter contained. He couldn't help but slightly chuckle as he felt triumphant.

Jackpot.

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Norman sighed pleasantly.

Warm water is surrounding his body and his tensed muscles relaxed and lowered. He closed his eyes as the calming europhia washed over him. Norman relished at the feeling. But then he remembered something awful and frowned while keeping his eyes close.

Then a 'splash' was thrown to him.

Norman is slightly startled but quickly faced the giggling culprits as they somehow scooted father from him.

Nat seemed satisfied with his mischievous act and smiled at Norman.

"It's been a while since we had a proper bath, Norman. Take some time to stop worrying." Nat splashed another and the warm water waved, spilling some on the tiled floor.

Norman chuckled bashfully, Nat was right about that, but worrying is something he couldn't stop doing.

Norman scratched his head, he shrugged and a small smile tugged on his lips.