City of Stone

For hundreds of years Earth has been a wasteland, radiation lingering after humanities fatal mistakes. The outside world has become uninhabitable, vicious creatures roaming the earth, sending the few surviving humans into the earth. A safe haven, the city of Invernes, stowed deep within the system of a cave, has harbored the remnants of humanity for decades. But when a curious girl decides to push the limits of the law, visiting the barrier between Invernes and the outside world, she discovers the truth about what lies beyond, shattering the world she once knew.
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I walk into the ramshackle of a terminal, abandoned and abused for years, monitors lining the walls, no longer displaying the once crucial information. This is the closest I'd ever been, to the barrier, to the outside world. Cautiously making my way through the building I begin to see it, sunlight. For the first time in my life I feel fear, excitement, curiosity, and joy all at once, my heart fluttering rapidly as I approach the large, shattered window. The barrier, once electrified wires running through the thick material, that of which I don't know. Shielding my eyes I scan the massive structure, my eyes slowly drifting top to bottom, but what I witness at the barrier's base sends my heart crashing through the ground.