The Dome - Part 2
by Charlotte Zaidi
Are you coming back soon? I think I might have heard something...
Eve! Did you see anything?? Are you okay?
I'm fine. There's no one. Just come back soon, ok? My skin will be fine.
I knew this was a bad idea.
I took you out of the Dome, because I thought I was saving you.
You DID save me, Anda!
But did I? Really??
We’ve been wandering in the Wasteland for weeks.
There’s zero protection from the sun. I can't find anything to make ointment with.
We’re literally burning alive.
Would you rather go back?! Back to the dark? Back to the Dome?
You’re in so much pain, Eve. You're covered in blisters.
Humanity wasn’t meant to live inside of a place like The Dome.
So you’d rather DIE in the Wastelands than live in The Dome?!
Yes.
Anda?
Anda don’t do this. I’m sorry, okay?
Please.
We don’t even know if The Collective exists, Eve.
Or where it is.
It has to exist.
Why?
There just has to be a place where we can walk in the sun without dying.
Otherwise...what’s the point?
Oh god.
What??
I think I see someone...
There’s someone else out in the Wasteland besides us??
Yeah... They’re lying down I think?
They’re hurt?
I don’t know... I just see them in the distance.
Do you have enough protection to cover you both?
Yeah but -
But?
They’re not moving.
Just face down.
Dead?
Maybe. I’ll go check.
Are you far from the cave? You should try to bring them back if you can.
Yeah I will try.
Are they alive?
Anda??
Are you both okay?
Skin.
Skin?
Just skin.
Skin and stones...laid out to dry.
Of an animal?? If the hide of an animal has been laid out to dry...that means...
Anda! There must be people nearby!! :)
No.
Not animal skin.
Human.
There’s a fucking human skin suit just rotting out here in the sun.
Come back, Anda.
I can’t just leave it here?!
Come back NOW.
Whatever did that to the human IS STILL OUT THERE.
And those things are looking for us.
Shit. You're right.
Do you see anyone near the cave??
I’ll check.
Can't see anything. It’s safe, come back.
I’ll be there soon.
Wait - I can smell something...
Something good?
No.
It smells like the Factory.
What?!
You don’t think...
No.
They wouldn’t send Workers here after us. No one comes back from the Wasteland.
We’re dead to them.
I can smell them, Anda.
You can’t. You’re panicking. Stop. You’re weak.
The smell of decimated bodies...hot, human flesh. Blood.
Don’t -
It smells exactly like the bodies that the Workers dump...
Keep calm. Stay in the cave.
No. I can’t stay in here. It's suffocating.
DO NOT MOVE, EVE! We don’t know what’s out there.
And you're so burned you can barely walk.
PLEASE, Eve!
I can’t stay.
Eve?
Fucking ANSWER ME EVE!
They’re here.
But you said there was no one there??! Is it Workers??!
Just stay in the cave. They haven’t hurt us so far.
Eve??
They...look human.
Human?
Oh, God, Anda.
They’re just people - like us. But - they’re covered in bandages.
I can’t even see their fingertips.
Oh my God, Eve. It's WORKERS! Don’t go near them!
But, they’re just PEOPLE, Anda! Human, like us!
We don’t know they’re like us at ALL, Eve. STAY AWAY from them.
They must have escaped the Dome, too! Like us!!
You don’t know how long they’ve been out here.
Away from humanity.
Anda…
Just wait until I'm back. Okay? Please.
I’m really close.
They could help us. Tell us where The Collective is. Tell us how they survived.
Eve - stay in the cave.
They’ve seen me.
Fuck, Eve. LISTEN TO ME!
They’re coming over.
DO NOT INTERACT WITH THEM! RUN!!
They’re human, Anda. They will help us
You're hallucinating, Eve!!! Oh God. STOP!
Eve
Eve??!
I can see the cave. I'm here!!
But, I can’t see you.
Eve?
Oh my god. Eve. The Skynners. Those bandages. THEY'RE SKYNNERS!!! EVE!!
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