Blue eyes went sharp as filleting blades. "Does the truth so hurt your special fuckin' ears?" Anya asked, muscles less inclined to make a move now that she knew, rationally, that she couldn't be facing a cannibal. The woman's cursing was diametrically opposed to what she knew about kept women, too, though. In her world, they were spoiled wisps of things, the most intact and decadent clothing. Generally sweet, with little knowledge of what happened outside of their doors. So who was she? Him? The other firestarter with the tech? Where had they come from that they couldn't even grasp the basics of survival? What madness had those physicians truly been up to?
And most importantly: where was she now?
Because nowhere on an entire planet of wasted, post-tech-beaten earth did anything exist like this tropical hellhole.
"Or is it just that you've been so sheltered you don't know how this food thing works? It's not like you can go to some building to peruse from little shelves. You gather, grow, kill, clean, cook! And when there isn't enough, you TAKE!" She threw up her hands, matching the woman's volume with her own rather than trying to out-shout her with modulation. "I was trying to keep us alive, idiot girl!"
"Doesn't matter now. He's made his case." She lowered her voice, sending a clipped nod to the man's still-lit stick. "A second firestarter in one day, in this forest? No thank you." As the other woman pulled her bag close, Anya's ears swiveled, a pang of regret clenching her fists. If she'd kept ahold of hers, perhaps there'd have been something she could use to get out of the greenery-covered cage. Or something to eat or drink. She wouldn't know, because once the plants had come to hungry, vicious life, taking the time to look would've meant death. "If not food, perhaps the good physicians decided to send us here with useful things. Other weapons, perhaps? Or, since you're so keen on his life, perhaps first aid supplies," she added, more than a little sarcastically.
And most importantly: where was she now?
Because nowhere on an entire planet of wasted, post-tech-beaten earth did anything exist like this tropical hellhole.
"Or is it just that you've been so sheltered you don't know how this food thing works? It's not like you can go to some building to peruse from little shelves. You gather, grow, kill, clean, cook! And when there isn't enough, you TAKE!" She threw up her hands, matching the woman's volume with her own rather than trying to out-shout her with modulation. "I was trying to keep us alive, idiot girl!"
"Doesn't matter now. He's made his case." She lowered her voice, sending a clipped nod to the man's still-lit stick. "A second firestarter in one day, in this forest? No thank you." As the other woman pulled her bag close, Anya's ears swiveled, a pang of regret clenching her fists. If she'd kept ahold of hers, perhaps there'd have been something she could use to get out of the greenery-covered cage. Or something to eat or drink. She wouldn't know, because once the plants had come to hungry, vicious life, taking the time to look would've meant death. "If not food, perhaps the good physicians decided to send us here with useful things. Other weapons, perhaps? Or, since you're so keen on his life, perhaps first aid supplies," she added, more than a little sarcastically.
Dreams come in a size too big so we can grow into them.
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