FatimaAzfar
A mixture of singed hair, melted iron, and exhaust fumes, filled the air. A worker coughed as he breathed in the perpetual smog that blocked out the blue dawn sky for the last century and a half, wishing for a breeze to clear the air. He was young. Brown hair, olive skin, average height, almond-shaped blue eyes. The youth's eyes were dulled, seemingly through experiences of one far older. His washed out eyes gazed at the grey shifts around him, taking in the slumped forms that trudged amongst the computer wasteland. Their keen eyes were stuck firmly to the ground in front of them, scanning for treasure amongst broken memory boards and obsolete smart phones.
Daedalus brushed a rough hand through his dark hair, taking in the vast land around him one last time before sighing and joining the scavengers. His pack soon became full of odds and ends. Dae had a gift for finding working bits of technology in the piles of cracked screens and smashed disks. He stretched his back in an arch, cracking his neck side to side, and reached for the fluffy white clouds that he knew still existed somewhere behind the grey that made up his world.
... Sneak Preview of Chapter 1: Smog