The darkness is coming...
Perry felt himself drift into consciousness; his head was buried in his duvet. Perry could hear frantic muffled shouting, and then as he pulled the duvet his hearing cleared and he was instantly able to recognise the worried voice. His lifelong friend, his recent lover, his Amata. The vault alarms were blaring, he blocked them out he needed to hear her.
"Come on Perry you've gotta wake up!"
Amata began shaking Perry in his seemingly unconscious state. Perry didn't need any more convincing as he pulled the duvet off fully and sat upright on the bed. "I was just dreaming about you Amata" he said with a sly smile, his feral eyes twinkling in the fluorescent light. His comment was met with a swift slap to the face leaving Perry nursing his now rouged cheek and a very hurt and confused look upon his face.
"Perry the vault has gone to hell, your fathers gone and Jonas is dead!" Perry shot upwards into a standing position "what, how!?" Amata simply began stuttering and spluttering at him. "I said, explain!" he shouted back at her unintelligible tongue twist.
She immediately calmed at Perry's sudden burst of enraged bluster "your father, he left the vault we didn't know why. My fathers men went to question Jonas but officer Mack, he just went crazy and beat him, he just kept hitting and hitting until Jonas stopped moving" by the end of her recount of the nights events Amata was in tears, her usually calm intellectual facade crumbling before Perry's now sympathetic eyes which had lost their feral demeanour. "Are you alright Amata? Did they hurt you?" Amata simply fell into Perry's embrace. Then remembering her original mission Amata pulled away from Perry "my fathers men are coming for you, the only way you'll survive is by leaving the vault"
"Amata do you even know what you're saying, were born in the vault and we die in the vault, I can't go up there!"
"But your father did" at Amata's statement of fact Perry was suddenly stumped, his father had left. He remembered the morning of his goat when he asked his father if he really couldn't leave the vault. His father had immediately dismissed the notion and sent perry on his merry way. Now his father had GONE, what a hypocrite. Did his father not realise what chaos would ensue, what destruction his actions would cause. Perry decided there and then to leave the vault as Amata had suggested, but he wouldn't simply roam, his father needed to answer for this madness he caused. And of course the death of Jonas, who had been nothing but a friend and loyal co-worker to his father. Perry knew if he survived the night in the vault he would still be banished, people he knew all his life whom he counted as friends would turn their backs in an instant it was leave by choice or get thrown out "damned if you do, damned if you don't" flashed through Perry's head. "Amata you're right, I'm going to leave but i need to go it alone for now, if your fathers men find you with me it could bring you some serious trouble"
"fine but take this, the guards wont be very merciful Perry, they're ordered to shoot on sight" Amata produced a pistol and held it out to Perry.