DISTRICT 7
CASEY
6

I walk out to the hatch and wait. Claire woke me up in the middle of a sleepless night. We were scheduled to land in 1 minute.
It feels warmer down here. I stand up and feel the vents. No air stream. I plopped back down and stared at the ceiling. I felt the push of the ground as we landed. The light dimmed and people filed out with their suitcases. The hatch dropped in what looked like a futuristic capitol hangar. Blue wires connecting to gold wires. Steel pipes and workers galore.
Philip lead everyone through a tunnel into a elevator. The buttons had everything from hospital, to college campus. Post office. Library. Exotic pet center. Nursery. "Wake up sleepy heads. Clintasta will need your full attention." I stood up straighter. Carleigh hugged her duffel to her side. Blake rearranged all the bags on one shoulder to where they were even.
The doors clanged and opened. Wow. I rubbed my eyes. Blue memory foam carpet. Clear diamond chandeliers hung in the four corners of the square room. "Nobody lives here but you! Now go have fun in anywhere but the nursery while I check you guys into your rooms." Philip said pushing us to a glass elevator. Sun-Yaki must be rich.
I went to the archery training center. Forty floors up with Philip's favorite song from centuries ago, Call me Maybe blarring. When the doors click open a forest sits before me. Four bows on a glass table. Five sheaths of arrows. I run my fingers across the black oak bow.
I notch the arrow in the beautiful oak. The intercom sounds: "Wave one."
Deer and sparrows shoot out everywhere and I shoot down all but one owl who I couldn't bear to kill. It gave me those puppy dog eyes and I melted to my knees. A cash register materialized out of thin air and printed a recipt.
19 out of 20
Was printed in curly letters. Hmmm. I did good. The intercom buzzes on again and I think its going to say wave two so I ready my bow. When Philip's voice comes on I am so startled that I shoot the intercom and it blows up leaving trails of sparks on my ashy jumpsuit. Flashes of blue and gold wires sprang out and attack me.
I run back to the lobby where Philip is frantically trying to get back in to the archery room's intercom. "I kind of blew it up..." I say as he sat back in his chair and sighed. "You needed me?" I say trying to divert the conversation from the broken intercom.
"Follow me your room is ready." Philip said jangling his keys as we walked up a small stairwell. It opened up to a small golden hallway labled: 'Stars'. The small mousehole shaped doors were also labled. "Right here! CS1999 is your room." Philip ripped a key of the caribeen and and handed it to me. He pressed a button on the inside of his jacket. The intercom clicked on. "I need Claire and Redrick in the lobby. Claire and Redrick in the lobby." Philip talked to himself like an idiot, but I could here his voice calling down the other hallways. I thanked him and he left and walked back to a lobby.
The lock clicked on my door. I steeped into a vaulted ceilinged room. Blue walls with owls peering at me from every little nook made to look like windows. Gold twigs like my opening ceremony outfit, curled as my headboard.
A tablet looking thing was built in my walls in several locations. The left wall, a golden plate saying 'Overhead receiver'. I tapped the screen and a list popped onto the screen. Only Claire's room was filled in.
The right wall, my shower tablet, different temperatures and spray styles. The shower was tucked behind a silver silky curtain, in an alcove made on tile.
By my headboard was bed firmness and sheet texture. I tapped the sheet texture tab, it opened to a line of colours and quilting patterns. Blue must have blue. The black sheets sank into the mattress and came up blue and smooth not quilted. I fell onto the luxurious sheets. I love this!
My eyes flutter softly closed. My mind fills with castles and unicorns as I drift of into timeless sleep.