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Original X-roads-2003
In the Future…
It had been a few days since the explosion, none of us really knew what had happened. The word on the street was that the energy processing plant had exploded, but not how or why. There was varying reports from people, depending on what section of town they lived in. Computer malfunction, faulty equipment, and user error were the main causes.
I was on my guard duty shift at the laundry when I heard a voice that seemed familiar, yet foreign, screaming my name.
I looked up and saw a teenage girl with brown hair and eyes bounding towards me. She looked as if she had just found a long lost friend or relative, but I know no one here. Her face looked a little familiar, but I couldn’t place it anywhere.
She threw her arms around my neck and hugged me tightly, “I thought I was never going to see you again!!! How’s Jamie?”
“Jamie?” I tried to pull her off me. “Who are you?”
She pulled back and looked at me with a pained expression. “Don’t you know me? I’m Meeset.”
At once the facial features made sense to my memory, she was about ten or maybe twelve the last time I saw her. She was a little girl, not even a year ago. I exclaimed as I looked at her, “You’re old!”
She laughed, “You’re not! You drank the water from the hidden spring didn’t you? The water here that makes you immortal.”
“What are you talking about?”
Meeset’s face screwed up, “You look the same though. I’ve been here for years and aged, you haven’t aged at all.”
“What are you talking about?” I asked again. “I think you need to start from the beginning. The last time I saw you was about eight months ago at Daemon’s castle in Rhisma. How did you get here and where have you been?”