[04] Arctic Sector

[Sage]

Sage nearly collapsed. She had just wanted to be nice to Belle, after she terrorized him nearly half to death, and instead, she offended him so much that he’d run away. The hybrid went outside, after poor Belle, but he was already gone.

She didn’t mean to. She laughed... because she was relieved. All of the racing thoughts and disturbing imagery just- stopped upon realization that Belle had no idea what Sage was talking about.

But she had to move. Sage began to retrace her steps, and headed back into the arctic, knowing she had to get to a bunker before she could do anything else - including talk things through with Belle. She hoped he wouldn’t be too offended.

Traveling through the city had proven just as creepy and uncomfortable as it had the last time she had done it, but she managed to make it to the still-bewildering transition between city and frozen wasteland quicker this time. She was learning the land, she thought with more than a little sarcasm.

Immediately, sundown plunged into the dead of night, but the gorgeous starry sky revealed itself overhead once again. It was quiet - no wind - and she could see for miles in every direction, except through the city behind her. She walked.

Sage trudged through the ice and snow, happy to be back in the frigid landscape, on her way toward the bunker that seemed to sit right in the middle of the place, as if to spite those that couldn’t handle the cold. Not that Sage minded, as it made the place quieter than it could have been.

Finally, the structure poked up from the totally flat horizon, sticking out like a pimple on the face of the land. It was a good pimple, though. Coming from Sage, that was high praise. She hated pimples. Or any unsightly blemishes, really.

The girl burst through the door into the bunker, finding the entire place totally abandoned. How awesome was that? Sage closed the door and immediately headed to the fridge; it had been hours since she last ate.

“Hope there’s something- aww!”

There was nothing left except bread and margarine. She sighed, and awkwardly took both with her one good hand. Belle and Ashe got great food and she was stuck with... filler.

Great.

The girl found herself a butter knife, and sat down at the table, gazing morosely at her ‘food’ for a moment, before she finally set about preparing a sandwich, with nothing but bread and butter.

Sage moves from the City Sector to the Arctic Sector

Sage enters the Arctic Sector bunker