"Walker..." they chanted, staring at me in awe....
Children. Tens of them. Dressed in the bare minimum necessary to consider clothes. They were the most bedraggled bunch I'd come across in my travels, but not by far. I wondered where the adults might've been, and how long they'd been left alone, with trinkets of civilisation as toys. One seemed to be carrying a record player, hooked up to a pilot's headset. They were extras from Lord of the Flies, in an oasis paradise deep in a sandstone
"Captain Walker,"
"I fear," I began, trying to put a gentle smile on while inwardly seething at the sort of society that would abandon children to themselves like this. "...you have mistaken me for someone else."
They stared, wide-eyed, questioning my existance. Hushed whispers raced around the crowd, some of the toddlers being hushed down by the teenagers who may have been their parents...
"So, where're all your parents then?"
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?
Children. Tens of them. Dressed in the bare minimum necessary to consider clothes. They were the most bedraggled bunch I'd come across in my travels, but not by far. I wondered where the adults might've been, and how long they'd been left alone, with trinkets of civilisation as toys. One seemed to be carrying a record player, hooked up to a pilot's headset. They were extras from Lord of the Flies, in an oasis paradise deep in a sandstone
"Captain Walker,"
"I fear," I began, trying to put a gentle smile on while inwardly seething at the sort of society that would abandon children to themselves like this. "...you have mistaken me for someone else."
They stared, wide-eyed, questioning my existance. Hushed whispers raced around the crowd, some of the toddlers being hushed down by the teenagers who may have been their parents...
"So, where're all your parents then?"
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--m(^0^)m-- Wot, no sig?