They hesitate, why? It's obvious, it's made for that.
They zoom in on her and scrutinize her in every detail.
- What 50%.....
- The average…. HaHa it's tiring
HA HA HA HA!!
A jolt
A cry
A dull thud erupted from the back of the crowd, a rumble that rose up through the feet, all the way to the guts. The crowd backed away, forming a circle around the man, who was kneeling, head in hands, panting.
He screamed, his face black with veins, twisted with rage and despair. He banged his head against the ground, again, again, and again. Blood trickled from his forehead, and from the wound rose a dense black smoke.
- It was MY LUCK!, he yells, his voice breaking, how many times have I not sent a request, only to have them accept me, WHY NEVER
He looks up, black-injected, his veins bulging, black, ready to burst, he moves as if something is crawling under his skin
- You don't understand how important this is to us, you live far above us, who have to survive every day, I gave everything..., he was shaking. my son, my CHIP and even my blood
A laugh squeaks, out of tune
- HA HA HA and you rejected me…..
He begins to lose consciousness, a black wave spreads beneath him and rises around him, the earth cracks and the shadow stretches...
It's not true, it's the first time in my life that I saw the birth of a "TRANSEMOTIONAL"
Obviously I wasn't the only one
A deafening roar and a first black thread rises, splits again and again and explodes into a thick smoke that reforms. Feet, a body, arms and a waist never seen here before.
The crowd recovered too late, it mounted the first group within reach, killing them instantly, propelling the other half who burst against the fence like common mosquitoes and poured down on us.
- Shit, it's a "shadow," yelled a recruiter, GET IN THE CAPSULE, we're falling back
The rest of the crowd rushed towards us, no doubt to find a way out.
I saw Ela pushed back by the crowd, I barely had time to pull her into the capsule when the first recruiter knocked off the head of the first person to come.
- Cleared or I'm not responsible for anything anymore, go back in and close the capsule
- Let's go, let's go
Rushed behind us and closed the capsule hatch
Outside, the "shadow" devoured everything in its path. And for a second I imagined myself still there.
- We… We should help them, I said, trembling.
The recruiter looks at me, without emotion is said
- You can still jump to save them, is there another hero who wants to follow him too?
Silence
I look down and hug Ela .
- So it's no, too bad, if you have nothing useful to say, close it there.
The capsule rises smoothly but I feel the rush, I want to vomit, this vision comes back to me constantly
I curl up, knees against my chest, breathless in this crowd of candidates, each one standing straight, without saying anything. The soft lighting outlines the contours of the faces, but doesn't warm the atmosphere.
Ela stayed by my side, staring up at the circular ceiling. She didn't move, as if she was waiting for it to pass. Simply.
I try not to think about it too much, not to remember it, but... A
Every time I close my eyes, I see these scattered bodies again, I'm going to vomit...
Then a click sounded, the ceiling opened, attracting everyone's attention, light flooded in, whiter, so clean and beautiful, the capsule was docked at the station
- Here we are, this is what the domes look like
- I think..., she replied.
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