Chapter 1: Abnormal Days

[iruy]

Attention! A body has been found! That's right, a body has been found! Report to the hallway on the way to the cafeteria! A body, I'm so proud!

[Maybe you go to the hallway. Standing in fear is Lev, staring at Jakub, who is holding Tony's bloodied corpse.]

Comments

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

[offers a weak smile]

I'm not smart too.

That's why...

[looks back at the potatoes]

[misspell]

You're a...Super High School Level Potato Farmer?

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, no! I'm a dendrologist! That is, um... I grow trees! But for the last two years I was hired by people who wanted to find out how to make apple trees strong against... tree illnesses? You know, insects and, ah... bacteriums who eat the trees? So they listened to me about which other trees to cross the apple trees with, but I was not allowed to grow them, they did that in laboratories! But I could always visit the trees when they had planted them. It was--

[realises how much he is talking and shuts up in embarrassment]

...

I--

I know nothing about potatoes.

[misspell]

[Uuuuuh...wow. Violet almost blinks in surprise, she actually has him talking to her. He must really like trees.]

Ah, that's fine! That's cool, that's cool, that's um...epic! Did ya have to do tree competitions too?

...But seriously, man. What's up with dem taters?

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

Tree competitions? No...

[picks up the small glass]

I, um.

I try to collect the soil?

I know that maybe I should do something else, but...

[looks in the direction where Tony's body lies]

I do not have much, ah... hope. I think nobody will admit it if they killed her.

1/2

[misspell]

Ooh! Ooh! Are you trying to plant a tree here? I'd be down! That's swiggity-swaggity extra...mega...super duper cool! This place could use a bit more scenery and stuff.

[misspell]

And um. I know some people are working on it...

I mean. We better figure it out, or else...or else we're all g-goners!

uhn

[(Anonymous)]

Hm-m...

[the smile that was starting to grow on his face at her tree approval fades as he goes quiet]

...

It doesn't feel real, right? Everything is happening so quickly. It doesn't feel as if our lives are only so short now...

If you think I can help your friends, can you tell them that I'll try?

[searches for eye contact again]