Summary: How does Lucas react when he gets outside for the first time? What does he think?
19 years after Lucas' birth
Lucas pov
The guards' feet clank on the metal floor behind him as he dashes thru the open gate. As Lucas runs thru the vault entrance out he barely recognize the skeletons that lie right outside; he have much more immediate concerns in as to not to get hit by six to seven bullets that whistles by him.
"I'm not going out there," he can hear one of the guards say far behind him. "Quick, close the door behind him."
The big metal door is moved back into place, and with a long metal groan the only home Lucas have ever known is closed off. He feels already that he will miss it, but knows that he surely never will be let back in again. Not that he feels any kind of sentiment for the overseer or many of the other vault dwellers, but that he will miss Amata.
It is only now that he dares to stop and look around. He seems to still be underground, as a rocky wall are on both to his left and right, both above him and below. With his former home behind him there is only one way left for him to go, and that is towards the wooden door in the far end of the tunnel.
There is a bright yellowish light that sips thru the gaps between the light, that gives the exit somewhat of a heavenly shimmer to it. Lucas have to wait a moment to catch his breath after all the running and let his adrenaline go down, but after a few minutes of just observing the wooden door he can feel that there is a sudden tension in the air. What can be behind this door? What does the world outside the vault look like? Will there be anything left to see? Is there even any radiation?
As he gets out the morning sun blinds him. It is so strong for his unused eyes that his surroundings first appear to just be a load of white. He has to flinch, as the pain in his eyes is too strong. When he has adjusted to the light he looks around slowly, amazed at what he sees. The first thought that hits him is that it is much dirtier than he have imagine it.
He has always pictured it to be a roof outside, as it have always been a roof above him up till now. But as he looks up it is so swindling high that he is afraid that he might just fall of the surface of the world. And there are no walls either. He first consider the big rocky heap behind him to be a wall that somehow connects to a roof, but then he realize that it kind of wasn't, really.
"Its amazing," he breathes. He have never thought of the outside to be this BIG, as the world seems to never end when he looks out on it on top of the small plateau just outside of the door that leads to the vault entrance. He wonders where the end to this new world is, and senses the urge to just walk out in one direction to find out how long it takes for him to get there. The thought of no boundaries is a thrilling thought in Lucas' mind.
But then he gets to think on Jonas death again, and his mood darkens. The Overseer got what he deserved. He surely still lies where Lucas have left him, with so much pain from Lucas' treatment. And now they don't have any doctor to treat the wounds. Lucas wonders who will take over that duty now when James is gone.
Lucas takes the message that his father have left him in Jonas pocket. The boy wonders if he should listen to it now or later. He decides that it will be later, and pockets it again. First thing first; only this morning he found out that his dad have left. Lucas has to find him and get to know why. He might even be able to get his father to come back, so that everything can get back to the way it was. Well, except that people inside the vault might finally go outside freely.