The burners were enjoying a meal at antonio's when Mike pointed out a girl.
"Never seen her before"
"Must be new" said Dutch through a mouthful of pizza "Wow I haven't seen anyone that tan in like, ever" commented Julie "She's probably a desert child" Chuck mumbled absentmindedly as he typed. The others turned to look at him "A what?" asked Mike 'A desert child, you know" Chuck replied waving his hand in a vague gesture "Ummm no, no idea"
'Seriously, you guys don't know what a desert child is. didn't any of you take a history class?" Chuck closed his hollo screen and looked at them "I went to cadet school, history didn't really matter" said Mike looking sheepish "Yeah man I useta sleep during history" Dutch nodded "Texas didn't care"
p durring "I usually snuck out durring history to explore said Julie. "Ok I am going to give you guys a crash course when we get back" Chuck said ending the conversion "Umm ok" Mike said trading what the heck looks with the rest of the burners -
"Ok so you do know what the big boom was right?" Chuck was sitting on the counter at Jacob's looking at the rest of the burners "Please tell me you at least know what the big boom is" ground Chuck putting his head in his hands. The group looked at him blankly, with a sigh Chuck continued.
"The big boom happened 50 years ago, it was a series of bombs going off prematurely. They wiped out whole areas of the world. Big cities built new and improved cities on top of what was left of the originals, like deluxe also like deluxe some people still live in the original citys, there each called something different though, Steam city Electric city dust city and so on. And there are a few tribes of people running around in the waste land too."
the silence was broken by Mike "Wow you know a lot about what s going on outside"
Yeah my mom was a traveler so I visited most of those places, in fact I was born in Steam city" replied Chuck smiling a little "Cool" said Dutch "Yeah we umm moved to Deluxe about a year ago but Mom hated it so much we came to Motorcity within a week, heh unfortunately it was just enough time for her to catch a diseases. Perfectly harmless to Dluxens who have that vakseen thing but to an outsider.." Chuck trailed off into silence caught up in memories. He started when Mike put his hand on his arm "Mikey" he whispered looking down, Mike's response was to tug him into a hug "Hey man we got your back" Dutch said from behind them "Yeah! If any old disease tries to infect you I'll kick it's butt!" cried Texas doing a few kicks and punches for effect, Julie just smiled "Thanks guys" mumbled Chuck hugging mike a little tighter