Swimming Upstream

[[under heavy rewrite//postponed]]

According to Father, the Broken City used to be full of all kinds of people, but that was back when there was no such thing as being Pure because, well, everyone was. Father told stories of days when the Cities were full of thousands- millions of people, all equal and strong, and there were no border walls built around the areas deemed to be meant for the clear-skinned only. The cities were like a single, unified landscape of silver tipped skyscrapers, in which everyone was happy, and clean, and very well fed. Once, Father told, there had been no need for a Ration Train at all.
Today was different. Minnow had never thought of it being different, for she had been raised on the farm, and had always known the Broken City to be as it was. But Mother, Father, the Brooke's, and even the other hired farmhands, the Sholhart brothers, they all told of a time before, a time that made this time look like an entirely different world. It wasn't just the people on the Farm who remembered Before, Minnow understood that it was every adult, and most importantly, every one of the Scarred.

Cover by: @That_Guitar_Girl