[COLOR="Green"]crash
I looked up from my report, hearing a sound which was not uncommon on the barren lands of Xenos, but there was something...
I stood up, walked away from my desk, to the window, looking out over the city. The city... built by refugees from Earth after that.
The city itself was, to my own surprise, quite beautiful. Even though I've lived there for my entire life, and even though going out was dangerous, the city still was an amazing place. Built into a valley, or more like crater, of the planet far, far away from the planet I should call home, but I've never seen before.
It was calming to see how people managed on Xenos. Because of dangerous radiation, the first thing here was a giant bubble to protect everything in it from whatever it was that was out there.
But then. That crashing sound. I knew that underneath the city, to avoid congestion, even with this little amount of people, there were tunnels to quickly go from one place to another. I decided to return to my desk and my report. 'Tunnels collapse every day in this shithole', I thought aloud. 'And now the heir of our throne got himself killed as well'. The best thing was to just leave this place. But how? I barely know all these people. Everyone was scared of everyone, not just since that murder, but generally, most people avoided getting out of their houses. Funnily, the news spread like wildfire, even in a isolated place like this.
As for me, I am just doing my job. As a scientist, keeping the city safe. Not as a law enforcer, but to protect the bubble and its atmosphere from being harmed. That was my job. That was my fathers job. And it probably will be my sons job. Still, getting away from this place is important to me. I'll have to check what kind of people are here, anyway. But not now. Even the crashing noise couldn't get to me. That's for tomorrow, and I went to sleep.[/COLOR]
