Chapter 15: The city at the end of the earth

The boy from the third colony found his way to the city at the end of the earth, it was just like he heard.

It was peaceful and fun, lot of people smiling and laughing, hear it was possible to hear baby cry, it was just like they were building a new earth here.

A lot of plants, trees and lot of animals. But they lied about a whole lot of other things like the welcome party, there was nothing like a welcome party.

They would treat the people to lot of scans, just to see if one is a shadow or not. Till the scans are done, one would be kept in a different place from the others. They even nicknamed the people that made it out of the attack of the shadow the impure, dirty, unholy and trash.

The boy from the third colony saw nothing bad with it until he saw what was happening to the people who the scan finds a little of shadows in them, they kill them straight.

The place was called the heaven, new home to humanity. The boy from the third colony got so scared, after the guard who was going to scan him told him about heaven and how the process of the scanning would go and what would happen if a little bit of shadow is found on him.

He could go violent and kick the ass of the guards there and just join the people in heaven but he was not into violence so he agreed to the scan.

Deep down as the scan was carried out, he wanted them to find a little shadow in him, he really wanted to meet the rest of the people that they were going to kill, he wanted to see how bad they were.

The first scan was successful, he got to go into heaven but he was as kept in a separate place from the rest, he was now an impure.

Days passed and he was tired of been the unholy, he could not wait for the next scan to take place.

Just as all his days use to be boring, he e le Tex this to be but towards the end, he had a partner who was an unholy too.

She was a kid, about the age of seven, she was separated from her mother in heaven, saying her mother was clean and they spotted a little shadow in the little and the mother was forbid from seeing or talking to her daughter. They said the shadows could spread and the mother agreed without a fight, to give up her only last surviving child.

Sam, the boy from the third colony, approached the little girl the second day, he was not sure how to talk to people but he tried,

“Hey, I am sorry that you hear”

“It’s no big deal, use to been alone”

“You not alone, you got me” Sam moved closer to her as he placed her head on his legs and gently placed some strands of her hair behind her ear.

“I am alone, you would soon leave I know it”

“I promise I would not, we already friends and friends stick together cause they love each other”

“You love me?”

“Yeah I do and I am your friend now”

“Don’t mother love me? She did but that love faded, your would fade soon too it’s expected”

“I can’t say my love would not fade but…” Sam was not sure of how to reply the little girl ,

“I know love is not real it never existed it’s just something wile make up”

“Like a lie?”

“Yeah like a lie but not a lie, not sure if you understand”

“Yeah not sure if I understand too” Sam said as he managed to smile and the little girl laughed and raised her head from his leg as she looked at his face

“But even tho love is made up, it always feels good to be loved, that’s why it’s not fully a lie”

“That’s deep” Sam said as looked into her eye.

Soon the two became so close, they would play and do everything together until one day, the time for Sam second scan came in, he was taking out for several hours.

The little girl waited and waited and then she was starting to lose hope when she fell asleep in her arms.

Just as Sam walked into the place he was kept, the guard that brought him back, dragged him back and said

“He said you should think about it” then le

“Sam!!!” She screamed as she ran to meet him, then he carried her and she hugged him tight,

“Promise you would not leave again” she said while she was still in his hands.

“I pro…” he could not complete his words when he remembered what the guard had said to him,

“You wanna play with those balls?” He asked trying to take the little girls mind of the talk.

“You leaving very soon right? I know they made you leave just like they made my mom leave me right?”

The little girl said as she sat on the floor and buried her face in her arms which was around her legs

“See they want me to go but I won’t go, I would try to stay with you” he said trying to reassure the little girl

“You would try!! You promised me you won’t leave, guess promises means nothing in this world again”

“Look here kid it’s harder than you think, I really want to stay by your side but life just has it way of ruining things for us all”

“Now tell me what’s the point of living? When life it self does not want us to live peacefully” the little girl asked with her eyes filled with tears waiting for the right time to drop.

“See I can’t explain life, no one understands life, it’s life we don’t have control over it”

“So why stay alive in it then? Why can’t we just die now and vanish?” She asked and this time she was crying and sobbing gently

“Little one I am not sure why we stay alive too but I guess we just have to fight for the life, not because it worth it or because we have something to achieve”

“Then why fight to stay alive when nothing I try to achieve works out well, my whole life is not even what fighting for”

“Kid you do right, why fight for life? Why don’t we just end ours here and now?” Sam said to the kid as he held out a knife

“We would cut the vein on our wrist and then we dead” he added as he passed the knife to the little kid.

The little kid held the knife for a several minutes but could not bring her self to cut it, she tried but something keeps on stopping her

“I don’t know why? But I can’t, I just can’t bring myself to do it, I think I am going insane Sam”

“Nope you not, that’s the effect of life, you get tired and you really want to be out so bad but when you on your way out you would eat to stay”

“What do you mean?”

“See life is no place that cares if you a kid or, it would not you the way it would hit a grown ass man, but you just have to develop your strength”

“Strength? I feel so weak not I don’t think o have a chance to get any stronger Sam I just want to die, I am tired” she screams at Sam face.

Then for the second time he gave her the knife and this time no holding back, she swiped the knife across her veins on her wrist and that was it

“Why is there no blood? Why am I not yet dead?” She asked in disappointment

“You think I would really allow you to look yourself? I am still here and I would be your strength”

“I hope you don’t get tired”

“I won’t I got your for now tho”Sam said as he gave her a big huge.