| It stopped raining today. I sat in that royal blue chair and watched out the window as the last drops hit the ground and pooled into crystalline portals to otherworldly dimensions. I couldn't see the ground anymore- It had been raining for so long... that hellsent black had fallen from the sky as long as i could remember... We'd been couped up in this building for such a long time. Maybe now we could finally leave. So here I sat, in the furniture section of the large mall that we had been locked in for all these years, surviving on homegrown produce and living in small hotel rooms, which were attatched to the main mall building. I was on the third floor of this familiar mall, staring out a large window at the morning sky as the pink sun finally came out of hiding. I didn't remember the sun being pink. The moon was also out, in all it's newly powder blue glory. i checked the time on my watch. In bold neon numbers, the watch told me the time was only four AM. But time never made much of a difference, and when you've lost all contact with the outside world, it really proves to be just another useless impairment on our lifestyle. Everyone else was asleep in the large hotel, which was about fifteen stories. At the top there was a balcony where you could look down at the surrounding area, but I'd never been out there. Maybe now I could finally see what the world now looked like. I got to my feet, looking down at my shoes from the nearest shoe store. That was one of the good things about being trapped in a mall- you never ran out of things you would prove to need. I started walking out of the department, and along the halls. My feet smacked against the floor and the loud noise echoed across the halls, and slowly died off in oblivion. As i came across the stairs to lower floors, I gazed down to see what had become of them. The second floor was fine, but as I glaced lower down, Nothing could be seen of the first- it was completely covered in that damned black liquid. I came across the hallway that connected the mall to the hotel. We had been lucky that it was on the third floor- had it been lower, there was most likely no chance that we would've been able to reach the hotel, and would most likely have to sleep on the cold floor of the mall. The hallway that led to the hotel was completely separate of the mall, and was actualy elevated off the ground, almost like a transfer hallway that you would use to get into an airplane. Proceeding into the hotel, i located the stairs and climbed all the way. It was only twelve floors- not that hard a challenge. And besides, stairs had never been a problem for me, and the elevators had stopped working at the first signs of the plagued water anyway. I reached the top, the highest floor available. There was a single door that led to the roof, which i opened. The entire roof was covered in a greenish haze, and the light from the pink sun added a curious effect to the backdrop, making it seem almost mystical, or enigmatic. I walked over to the edge of the roof, and looked around at what had once been the city of Port Deuvenmyre, a rather urban city that still had yet to make it amongst the larger cities of the United States, such as Los Angeles or Chicago. Everything that had once stood... everything i remembered about this place... it was gone. All that i could see was the tops of buildings, and that damned black. |



