Sunlight Chapter 6, Page 9: I walked up to the window, one hand reaching out to the view. My fingers brushed up against the cold glass and a shudder went down my spine. This wasn’t the world I remembered. This wasn’t even close. I had never been a nature freak, but seeing nothing but grey and red was doing something to me. It felt wrong. It felt dead and harsh and about as far away from right as it could possibly get. Even in a desert I should be able to see something. A gnarled shrub, a mirage of water. Something. Anything. But all I was seeing was nothing. “You’re going to miss breakfast.” Holly’s Boy walked up behind me. “What happened?” I asked, not bothering to turn. “End of the world.” He replied. He leant against the glass, clutching a bowl of cereal. “You really like making people work for information, don’t you? What’s your name? What happened out here? And what the hell are you people supposed to be fighting against?” I faced him then, a fury rising in my chest, one born of frustration and fear. No, not fear, terror. A bone-deep terror that had settled itself into my bones and started to change, to mutate with the rest of me. “Calm down.” He hissed, glancing over my shoulder. “Give me something!” “Danny.” He said. “What?” “That’s my name. And if you need a reason to trust us then there it is.” Danny shovelled a spoonful of soggy cereal into his mouth, keeping eye contact as he did.
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