Artificial Empathy

"The headlines have been speaking of a group of rich scientists taking small sections of the country and pitting humans against each other. Eventually it got out of hand and the scientists either became more human, animal, or robot. The animalistic ones fled, and the humanistic ones tried to warn others. The robot ones, the ones with no capacity of empathy continued, but stricter.

Those no empathetic ones reached Chicago and almost reached me."

Zyla is a 15 year old run away. Her life back home consisted of a mini hell on Earth. The headlines have been speaking of tragedy plaguing most of America, but she doesn't believe it. When she runs away she finds that the place she ran to will leave her wishing she stayed home.