Chapter 4a: Black and White
It had been just about a week since the chaos began. All of the sudden downtown Tetris had exploded in a brilliant flash. For an hour Oeh and Jay had been staring each other down over a game of chess. The game was intense, but their conversation had just began to heat up. They had avoided talking about the incident for a week, but now that another catastrophe had happened there was no way they couldn't talk about it.
"Do you really think that what the mayor said was true? I never believed the stories, they were just tales told to us when we were kids right?" Oeh began, "I mean, after what I've seen in those damned streets...I-I could believe it." Jay scratched his head, reaching forward to move a piece but doubting himself. There really was only so long before Jay had to finally respond, looking up at her. "I wish I could say, because there could be many logical explanations behind it but...really there isn't. Buildings exploding out of nowhere in a perfect line, no bombs or earthquakes yet all there was in the end was rubble and death-" Before Jay could descend down into a lengthy lecture of whatever philosophy had been on the backburner of his mind, Oeh cleared her throat and gestured for him to make a move. For at least now they could ignore the pressing threats of imminent obliteration with a silent game of chess. Finally, after an intense yet calming in the sense of its distraction, game, Jay had been victorious. They had just packed up the board and arranged their pieces when the tv blared from the living room once more.
"Oh god.." Oeh muttered. Jay gasped in shock, another explosion way downtown, this time it had only been a few buildings, a single row in the street. But what made nearly lose all hope and tears well in her eyes wasn't just the fact more had died and another attack had occurred so recently, rather it was because she recognized the ashes of one of the houses. Her soul dropped to the floor as she thought of losing another friend to the madness that had consumed the city of Tetris.