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Date Posted: 13:57:32 07/23/02 Tue
Author: Marzipan
Subject: The Wanderer

It was a beautiful, hot day, and Marzipan, the wanderer, had been walking all day. Her journey was from the countryside to the city, in hopes of finding a permanent settlement.

Why is it when I decide to make a choice that can turn my life around, I'm always going to the city?

Mental pictures of those trips and choices went through her head like a slideshow. The first of these was from when the virus first struck -- her parents were the first in her community to go. After the deaths of the community's adults, every kid split up. She had been happy to have been an only child -- she knew she wouldn't be able to bear with it if they were gone as well.

Images of nights she spent hiding from the Locos spread like wildfire through her mind. Nights of when the Locos haunted her dreams.


My feet hurt so bad . . .

Mars collapsed to the ground, dehydrated and worn out.

I can't go on, I must stay and rest. . .

And with those last words, she fell into another nightmare of being caught by a bad tribe . . .

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