She awoke in a large tent alone by a fire, she got up and looked around and saw cloth sleeping bags everywhere but she felt weird. She looked down and saw that she was wearing some tattered rags for clothes and had a metal collar on with a red flashing light. "Fuck!" She shouted as a girl of similar age walked in "Oh sorry." She quickly said not meaning it at the girl. The blonde girl approached her and sat down.

"Don't worry." She said "That was exactly my reaction to." She was wearing exactly the same clothes Ellen was. "My names Candice, what's yours?" She said smiling.

"Um, Its Ellen." Ellen uttered, confused.

"I'm sorry." Candice replied "it's always exiting when a new person arrives and we forget how fast it all comes on to them." Ellen started tugging at the collar. "Don't do that!" Candice quickly shouted at Ellen "It will explode!"

"Oh shit." Ellen said getting her hands quickly away from it.

"Yeah, I know right. But as long as you don't touch it you will be fine." Candice said with all the reassurance she could give.

"What the fuck is this place?" Ellen asked.

"This piece of shit amusement park is nuka-world. The biggest raider camp ever, probably."

"I'm sorry, I come from a vault so this is all new to me."

"No way, hold on then why are you here?"

"My vault got overrun by dinosaur like animals with massive claws."

"Holy shit, Deathclaws!"

"That's a suitable name I guess."

"Did your family get out?"

"I don't know, my dad was overseer so maybe he got out but my mum... she... she, didn't ." Ellen burst into tears

"Jesus, I'm so sorry." Candice replied emphatically.

"But I can't change that now. Gotta look forward." Ellen said, gathering herself.

Trying to change the subject Candice quickly asked "Do you have a pip-boy?"

"Yeah but it don't work, the core powering it broke while I was trying to get out."

"Still so cool." Candice said in awe. Suddenly the intercom crackled to life.

"Wake up, you little shits. Prepare for a full day of trading and someone teach the new bitch how to work or else they'll get outed." The intercom screamed.

"Follow me." Candice said as she got up and ushered out the tent.

As Ellen peeled back the grimy tent flap she was blinded by the bright sun light shining in her eyes, this was the first time she had seen the sun as it was night when she got out the vault and she had only ever seen pictures of it occasionally in books in the vault. It was way brighter than she thought. She looked down and saw what looked like a market place with people, whom she could only guess were other slaves like her, bustling around, setting up stalls selling different things. One sold clothes, one sold food, one sold chems and so on. But one stall was empty, the weapons stall.

"I guess your on weapons." Candice said to Ellen.

"If you have weapons why are you still here?" Ellen asked looking at the stockpile of weapons for sale.

"Go ahead and try take on hundreds of raiders." Candice replied sarcastically.

"We could sneak a weapon out every day and soon we may be able to take them by surprise." Ellen said, desperate for something.

"No, they count the caps and make sure everything is paid for."

"Then we could buy them."

"If we had the caps."

"Oh." Ellen muttered sadly.

"Working on the stall is easy, just don't let people have something for a cheaper price and definitely not free." Candice said changing the subject again. Ellen fumbled in her pocket and pulled out a large bag full of bottle caps.

"How did you get those?" Candice whispered quickly, grabbing the bag and hiding it under her shirt.

"I dunno, I just found it in my pock-."

"Danny!" Candice exclaimed, interrupting Ellen mid speech. "He's a raider who doesn't want to be like this anymore so he said he'd help us escape if we took him with us."