"Pet"
The Plaza, now it was a graveyard. Shaun hopped off. 'Go human; I want to talk to you.' Shaun replied completely human in tone, let still in ferret form, 'keep this a secret, from now I'm just your loyal ferret, we can talk later.' She walked on with her "pet ferret", looking for someone in charge to tell her what was going on.
A blonde girl and a dark haired boy, with a much younger little blonde boy, were talking outside the town hall. Caitlin ran over, ferret in tow. 'Umm… Hello?' They both stopped arguing at turned to look at her, then at her ferret. 'I'm kind off new here- so I'm just wondering what is going on.' The girl had big intelligent blue eyes, 'What do you mean by 'new'?'
Shaun ran around her right ankle, 'I just got into town, I was living in a house on Trotters Ridge but the power went out and the frozen food went off and I came down here looking for answers and stuff.' The dark haired boy spoke, 'What's your name?'
'Caitlin.' They went in to detail about the Fallout-Alley-Youth-Zone, and then the girl looked at the boy called Sam, muttering something. 'How old are you?' "Astrid" asked. '14, why?' She explained about the "big 15" thing. Caitlin knew she had 6 months but the ferret by her foot looked concerned, she realised she had never asked his age.
Astrid told her how to beat "the poof" and Shaun seemed to relax a bit. The young boy holding Astrid's hand didn't talk, ever, but he seemed obsessed with Shaun. Sam was staring over Caitlin's shoulder with a mix of annoyance and worry. She turned around to see the gang led by Zil coming towards them. 'On your way into town did you meet these lovely people?' Sam asked, already knowing the answer.
'This bitch just attacked us, Sammy, what're you gonna do about it? Is she one of your chuds? Her pet-thing-' 'It's a ferret Zil' Astrid interrupted condescendingly. '-attacked us, it needs to be put down or something.' One of his gang advanced with a baseball bat, Shaun scampered up Caitlin's leg over her camouflage print trousers and her tight fitting blue polo-shirt and black hooded army jacket to cling onto her shoulder.
Caitlin retreated behind an advancing Sam, 'Back off.' 'We aint scared of you Sammy boy, just cause you're a moof.' I still didn't know what that was; I looked at Astrid, confused. 'Some kids have mutated- developed powers-' 'Moofs!' one of Zil's lackeys shouted, sounding proud that he had successfully formed his first coherent word, Caitlin wanted to pat him on the head and say 'well done boy, do you want a doggie biscuit?' in her full Irish accent.
'-from the radiation in town from the nuclear power plant' Astrid finished. Caitlin remembered, an asteroid had hit one radiation domes. She figured that Shaun was a "moof" or whatever. But then it hit her, radiation? The little boy was reaching up to touch Shaun's ferret tail.
'This moof broke the rules in our part of town, she used her power!' 'What power?' Caitlin hadn't got a power, never mind used it! 'That squirrel-thing is-' 'It's a ferret Lisa.' '-her power' the girl in Zil's club spat. Sam looked at Caitlin, 'Is it?' Shaun the "squirrel-thing" bobbed his head up. 'No, this is just my faithful ferret Shaun, and as far as I know I don't have superpowers.'
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