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Soji
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"This could kill me..." Caryn (Rin) said happily to herself as she climbed the huge tree beside the outer walls. She knew the laws were extremely strict pertaining to the safety of the trees and scaling the wall, but she didn't mind either of them. It wasn't like they actually patrolled the woods or anything. Besides, who else would be foolish enough to climb the wall? So they didn't bother checking anyway.
This was how Rin had decided to spend her spring break, out on the edge of her world, enjoying the silent peace. And now that she was way out there, she didn't feel like returning to her boring college dorm and falling back into her monotonous lifestyle. The forests were always more like home, but she had to finish with her degree. Her mother had spent enough to buy a whole new house just for her education, besides, she'd need that education if she didn't want to end up getting drafted to the below-ground maintenance.
Rin finished her climb when she reached the top ledge of the wall. Hoisting herself up onto the six foot wide wall, she sat down and gazed out at the world below. Miles below, she saw great craters and vast fields of scrubs and brown brush. Off to the west an old broken down city lay in decay, gray and cold in the warm sunlight. The books in the library told of a time where the surface was green and prospering, just like Myeathra, but that was a long time ago.
This perch between worlds was her sanctuary. Once when she came up onto the wall, she actually saw the ocean and another time she saw one of the few green valleys left. Perhaps someday the world would go back to the way it was, but not in her lifetime.
And there Rin sat, deep in her reverie.
This was how Rin had decided to spend her spring break, out on the edge of her world, enjoying the silent peace. And now that she was way out there, she didn't feel like returning to her boring college dorm and falling back into her monotonous lifestyle. The forests were always more like home, but she had to finish with her degree. Her mother had spent enough to buy a whole new house just for her education, besides, she'd need that education if she didn't want to end up getting drafted to the below-ground maintenance.
Rin finished her climb when she reached the top ledge of the wall. Hoisting herself up onto the six foot wide wall, she sat down and gazed out at the world below. Miles below, she saw great craters and vast fields of scrubs and brown brush. Off to the west an old broken down city lay in decay, gray and cold in the warm sunlight. The books in the library told of a time where the surface was green and prospering, just like Myeathra, but that was a long time ago.
This perch between worlds was her sanctuary. Once when she came up onto the wall, she actually saw the ocean and another time she saw one of the few green valleys left. Perhaps someday the world would go back to the way it was, but not in her lifetime.
And there Rin sat, deep in her reverie.