An encounter.

Posted on August 03, 2008 @ 11:08AM

Everyday since Miro has been gone, I’ve been into the city showing her holo ID, stopping only to go to classes. It’s exhausting and I am having no luck whatsoever.

I found a small alcove just as I was getting quite tired, and sat down. I must have fallen asleep, because I’d woken up four hours later, with a splitting-headache, in complete darkness. I must have been dehydrated.

I loaded up the brightest visual I had stored in my wristponder, an article about the Orbis Gnorb, and went straight to the visual. A hologram of the gnorb hovered around my wristponder, and I turned the brightness to full. It provided a reasonable amount of light to see where I was going. For some reason this part of the city was in a complete blackout.

I looked around, hoping to avoid any danger that might be around. Mu was mostly Politia, and it was a reasonably safe place to be, but what with the recent drug scare, I didn’t want to take my chances that there could be some malevolent people about.

I started walking in the direction of Tosadae. I could see its bright Celian spires lit up in the distance. I headed towards it, quickly. After a while, I heard my footsteps begin to echo. Which confused me because I hadn’t changed terrain, and I was pretty sure the ground beneath me was hollow. I stopped and the steps continued. I turned around and saw a dark figure, smaller, the size of a child. I through my fists up, astonished.

“B-back off!” I said, loudly, trying to sound brave and authoritative”
“No harm!” it squealed back.
“Uhh, ok.” I said, more relaxed.
The figure came closer, into the light coming out of my wristponder. It was a small splicer boy with pale green skin, with two frog-like nostrils and two yellow eyes that glowed in the light of my gnorb-projection.
“Is gnorb?” he asked
“Yeah, kinda, not really.” I said.
“The girl?” said the child?
“Miro?” I asked, completely surprised?
I flicked the program back to Miro’s holo ID and the child lit up.
“Men take her. Men in hoods.”
“Where I asked?”
“Mausoleum,” the child said.

I was shocked. What could it all mean? I looked back to the spires of Tosadae, and then looked back to the child. But he had disappeared.

I’d better tell Grenci.

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