Look For The Light
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Last published Mon, May 1, 2023
➴➵➶➵Rue➵➶➵➴
Separated from her brothers, Rue was on the brink of death till found by a band of smugglers. They took the young girl underneath their wing and she'd accompany them, for four months, on their journey to the Boston QZ.
Before the age of ten, she had come to know the cold metal of a gun. At the age of ten, Rue has come to know how hopeless the world was. Looking back now, if you would have told her in four years, she'd find hope in the shape of an obnoxious, sheltered fourteen-year-old; she'd laugh in your face. How the tables have turned.
☾✯☽☾✯☽Ellie☾✯☽☾✯☽
Ever since birth, she was placed in an orphanage in Boston. All Ellie has ever known were the walls and ocean of the QZ; never once having the luxury to go beyond. A luxury she gained at the loss of another.
The fourteen-year-olds only serenity was the moon and the foreign concept of space. That was now replaced by the metallic clanking of chains and a barely-lit empty room. She was tied to Earth by the bounds of fate; a fate that cruelly stole her choice from her and it wouldn't be the only time in the shape of a broken man and a hopeless girl.
As fate had decided, she would come face-to-face with three smugglers. A woman named Tess, a man named Joel, and a fourteen-year-old girl named Rue.
Together they'd embark on a journey across the Us to find the fireflies facing the impossible, discovering themselves, and finding love amongst the ensuing chaos.
~Or~
The hopeless and the hopeful come together on a journey across the United States to find a cure that will save the world from fungi-eating infected.
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