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Coming out of Cheyenne, I passed an old Air Force base. It didn't seem like there were a lot of planes around, but then again, it was Post Pulse America, there wasn't much of anything around. The Air Force base was populated, though. I saw vehicles, hummers which I hadn't seen in over seven years, since my New Orleans days. I got an odd feeling from seeing those hummers, actually from seeing the entire place.
The place was surrounded by woods, and only a small road passed by it, at one time you could tell the road had been a main route out of Cheyenne. The front gates made it look like an Air Force base, so I wouldn't have given it a second thought as I walked by. If it hadn't been so heavily guarded. I got curious, so along with that odd feeling, I decided to walk past, then double back through the woods. When I found the perimeter fence in the woods, I was surprised to find it was extremely tall, and ad barbed wire at the top. The woods continued on the other side of the fence, but there was a small clearing around it on both sides. Probably so no one could climb a tree to get over it. There was a difference in the woods on the other side, that difference was the paths that wound their way into the trees, as well, a lot of the smaller vegetation looked like it had been kept trimmed to an extent.
I stayed close to a large tree I could hide behind and looked beyond the fence to see if there was anything going on. A few minutes later, I could hear two guards walking through the path. When they came around the bend of the path so I could see them, I was surprised that they were my age. They were dressed in grey t-shirts and pants that were spotted so they would blend into the trees better. The male's hair was cropped short, and the female's hung in a braid below her waist. They stopped by the fence and looked up and down the perimeter, and then she took a whistle and blew three sharp blasts. Suddenly, about two dozen children ran from the woods and lined up in perfect formation at attention. The children were dressed in army fatigues and didn't look more then ten or twelve years old. And they all carried a rifle. The older guy yelled out a bunch of numbers, and in turn, each of the children answered, like some sort of roll call. Then he yelled out some orders, they changed formation and marched off into the woods.
I was amazed, and terrified. Children, in the army? I sat down behind the tree and it took me almost ten minutes until I got the nerve to move back to the road. During those ten minutes, two sentries walked past me beyond the fence. They were about nine, and had the creepiest eyes. Black and uncaring.
Whenever I think of seeing that place, I get a strange feeling. Like I know more about that place than I remember. Maybe I saw that place before I lost my memory. Maybe I come from there or something, but I can't imagine myself being like those children. And when I was their age, I was living in New York.
When I got to the road, I ran. Faster than I have ever ran before, and I've never run as fast since. When I came to an intersection, I went north instead of west, but it didn't matter, because eventually I got to and crossed the Rockies. I didn't feel safe from that place until the mountains were between it and me.
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A.N. The Air Force Base, is, of course, Manticore. The two soldiers his age are fellow X5's and the group of children they had X6's. The two sentries that he saw that "had the creepiest eyes. Black and uncaring." Were two X7's. When I saw them on the show, this is what their eyes were like to me. When the show airs, Max is about twenty, and at this time, Xaver is about three years away from that age, therefore I took away three years from the other children as well. The X6's looked about fifteen in the show, so at this time they are twelve, and the X7 group looked about twelve, so they became eight. I did not include the X8 children (Bugler) because at this time they would be about five and probably yet to be allowed out into the woods by themselves.
~egbkid
Coming out of Cheyenne, I passed an old Air Force base. It didn't seem like there were a lot of planes around, but then again, it was Post Pulse America, there wasn't much of anything around. The Air Force base was populated, though. I saw vehicles, hummers which I hadn't seen in over seven years, since my New Orleans days. I got an odd feeling from seeing those hummers, actually from seeing the entire place.
The place was surrounded by woods, and only a small road passed by it, at one time you could tell the road had been a main route out of Cheyenne. The front gates made it look like an Air Force base, so I wouldn't have given it a second thought as I walked by. If it hadn't been so heavily guarded. I got curious, so along with that odd feeling, I decided to walk past, then double back through the woods. When I found the perimeter fence in the woods, I was surprised to find it was extremely tall, and ad barbed wire at the top. The woods continued on the other side of the fence, but there was a small clearing around it on both sides. Probably so no one could climb a tree to get over it. There was a difference in the woods on the other side, that difference was the paths that wound their way into the trees, as well, a lot of the smaller vegetation looked like it had been kept trimmed to an extent.
I stayed close to a large tree I could hide behind and looked beyond the fence to see if there was anything going on. A few minutes later, I could hear two guards walking through the path. When they came around the bend of the path so I could see them, I was surprised that they were my age. They were dressed in grey t-shirts and pants that were spotted so they would blend into the trees better. The male's hair was cropped short, and the female's hung in a braid below her waist. They stopped by the fence and looked up and down the perimeter, and then she took a whistle and blew three sharp blasts. Suddenly, about two dozen children ran from the woods and lined up in perfect formation at attention. The children were dressed in army fatigues and didn't look more then ten or twelve years old. And they all carried a rifle. The older guy yelled out a bunch of numbers, and in turn, each of the children answered, like some sort of roll call. Then he yelled out some orders, they changed formation and marched off into the woods.
I was amazed, and terrified. Children, in the army? I sat down behind the tree and it took me almost ten minutes until I got the nerve to move back to the road. During those ten minutes, two sentries walked past me beyond the fence. They were about nine, and had the creepiest eyes. Black and uncaring.
Whenever I think of seeing that place, I get a strange feeling. Like I know more about that place than I remember. Maybe I saw that place before I lost my memory. Maybe I come from there or something, but I can't imagine myself being like those children. And when I was their age, I was living in New York.
When I got to the road, I ran. Faster than I have ever ran before, and I've never run as fast since. When I came to an intersection, I went north instead of west, but it didn't matter, because eventually I got to and crossed the Rockies. I didn't feel safe from that place until the mountains were between it and me.
~~
A.N. The Air Force Base, is, of course, Manticore. The two soldiers his age are fellow X5's and the group of children they had X6's. The two sentries that he saw that "had the creepiest eyes. Black and uncaring." Were two X7's. When I saw them on the show, this is what their eyes were like to me. When the show airs, Max is about twenty, and at this time, Xaver is about three years away from that age, therefore I took away three years from the other children as well. The X6's looked about fifteen in the show, so at this time they are twelve, and the X7 group looked about twelve, so they became eight. I did not include the X8 children (Bugler) because at this time they would be about five and probably yet to be allowed out into the woods by themselves.
~egbkid
