Glint or A tale of two cities

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way...

Is it not a strange thing?

I was in the bar with Legion and Jarethe the other day and Jarethe who fits so well into the scene nowadays, with his ever gloomy mood alternating with indifference,  was lamenting about what has become of us and of Glint. I listened to him. I was exhausted and yet restless and terrible alert. I had spend another day surviving, protecting our children, hunting for something to eat and facing and training the overcoming of my fear of the walking dead. I looked at him and I told him...and it was from the bottom of my heart:

 "But now at least everything make sense!"

Of course Jarethe looked at me as if I had gone completely mad. Legion regarded me thoughtful. He knew what I was trying to say, for he and I had talked about it before.

I believe only when a human being feels a purpose and sense in life, he or she will feel alive and celebrate the sensation of it. Before the apocalypse the life in Glint was an exsistence bare of all logic and sense.

We would walk around in a state of constant confusion, we had to dull our senses to pull through. Rape for example never made sense and was hence never a crime in Glint. We always had a large population of females on the island. The few men here could really take their pick of available females. As a result the Rapings I have viewed were always conducted in a manner of duty by the males. It was expected of the males to rape so they may prove their masculinity. But where was the desire, the passion, the lust, the fear, the challenge. More so, because of the dress code, I found myself ordered to walk around naked most days. The ever present sight of naked females had dulled the male senses. And we females did not fear rape, nor did we  anticipate it. And yet, everything focused on it because it was the only sensation we were able to experience. For better or for worse.

Now, all that has changed. Our focus is not fighting the boredom anymore but on fighting death and infection. Now we are under a constant threat, a universal threat that knits us together closely in one respect but on the other hand it also gives way to a desperation that makes all of us unpredictable.

A hunger for life has raised. And this hunger causes all human emotions finally rise to the surface. Now a rape will be what it is. Either a terrible egocentric crime to destroy a woman's soul, as it happens usually in the world beyond Glint . Or to stay more with the spirit of Glint, a crime of passion. A hunger for life and the most the drastic display of desire a man can show to a woman. And for the women it is the ultimate sense of being claimed, always of course with the threat that the rapist may not be the one you would have chosen. The encounter I had with Psycho shortly before the apocalypse was like an Omen for these things to come. And was I not shaken by the experience to be claimed, to be desired so much?

So sexuality, the mirror of life in Glint has changed. There is a sense in it now. We all have won in depth. 

Before I was Gera, just another available piece of meat. 

Now I am a woman. I can be glorious and strong at times, when I protect the children, when i overcome my fear of the walking dead, when i learn how to use a weapon. Or I can be bad, stealing a scrap of food from a fellow hungry citizen. But I am a woman, a person. All my human facets are able to show now. And it is the same for all other citizens of Glint. We have become a community of persons, we express ourselves now and everyone becomes a character, an individual when before we were a bunch of random people who could not talk to each other, because there was nothing to talk other then idle superficial chatter. it was the age of foolishness.

Now we have in Glint the season of Light, the season of Darkness, the spring of hope,  the winter of despair, we have everything before us, we have nothing before us, we are all going direct to Heaven, we are all going direct the other way joining the walking dead...

But whatever may be, it all makes sense now.

Life after the Apocalypse

Our new place

View from the street

Every blood stain tells a story: We found the house empty and claimed it,
 the previous owners will not return. Well, not in their old form anyway.

Just out on an errant

Veebs and I

Legion and I

The Glint community grows tighter

Our home is always open. 

A thoughtful Winter, a refugee and my son playing

Another refugee coming for shelter

Makeshift furniture

Family life

home sweet home

Mare on the floor

Waiting for nightfall

Our terrace overlooking the graveyard.
 We have the walking dead in constant view

Getting organized

Making plans

Sticking together

Depending on one another

Jarethe and Legion, man-talk

Sunset

The haunted hotel changed it colors.

Survivers

Amazed that we pulled through so far

But the big sky is too big to care

Good team: Curator and Judge

On the eve of destruction

The first earthquakes that had ripped Glint open, were only minor hand when it was over, it had unearthed the old subway, that was built by the UN. As I walked through the town, through smoke and dust I could hear strange sounds coming from there. From the chamber below, but I walked on. I was on my way to the beach, to the Nursery which thankfully had been left untouched. The children were safe. As I walked on I must have lost my orientation. Suddenly a huge white wall blocked one side of the beach. Climbing the hills I saw a camp. I walked on until I came across a sign. The sign  said "No Geras". A camp for the correction of females. This was the camp of Psycho Fhang. As I glanced at the sign, a hot anger rose up in me. I thought of the day when he had faked his death. I thought of the indifference of the others and how only I had cried tears for him. 

I stormed through the bushes, angry and emotional and suddenly found myself standing right in the middle of a huge part of the beach. A pavilion further down and Psycho, sporting a full beard now. He was talking to one of the new bargirls, she  was naked of course. When he saw me he walked up towards me.

[10:58] Psycho Fhang: gera your not allowed on this beach unless your naked.

[10:57] Gera Heliosense: Psycho what happened here?

[10:58] Gera Heliosense: What is this? And why?

[10:58] Psycho Fhang: because thats how it is

[10:59] Gera Heliosense: and what have I done to you that you hate me?

[10:59] Psycho Fhang: I don't hate you as a matter of fact I like you a lot. I just think all females should be naked all the time

[11:00] Gera Heliosense: you have treated me with contempt ever since your "resurrection"

[11:00] Gera Heliosense: i was the first and only one on your side.

[11:00] Gera Heliosense:  and i was honest in my desire

[11:00] Gera Heliosense: and you treat me like dirt

[11:00] Psycho Fhang: no ever since you decieded you were better than the rest of the females

[11:01] Gera Heliosense: i hate you!!!

The moment he threw a net over me.

[11:02] Psycho Fhang: well well Legions little tart

[11:02] Gera Heliosense starts crying and trying to free herself

[11:03] Gera Heliosense: fighting to get out of the net.

[11:03] Gera Heliosense: let me out!!

[11:03] Gera Heliosense: I hate you!!!

He handcuffed my hands 

[11:05] Gera Heliosense cries miserable

[11:05] Gera Heliosense: helplessly cuffed

[11:06] Psycho Fhang bends down and kneels before his prize as he attempts to place shackles around her ankles

[11:08] Gera Heliosense sobs abd turns her face away from him

[11:08] Psycho Fhang haveing her secured I drag her out of it

[11:10] Psycho Fhang reaching down I untie the knot holding her skirt in place and whip it off of her "" you won't be needing this again

[11:11] Gera Heliosense looks at him, her dark eyes swimming in tears

[11:11] Psycho Fhang reaches behind her and attatches a dog leash to the handcuffs

[11:13] Psycho Fhang: so darling you think your special do ya ? well I agree and because I do I think I shall make you a treasure to be safeguarded and kept and admired.

[11:13] Gera Heliosense: She shakes her head, sobbing

[11:13] Psycho Fhang: well darling you brought it on yourself

[11:14] Gera Heliosense: why?

[11:14] Gera Heliosense: because you hate me?

[11:15] Psycho Fhang: hardly darling, because I wanted you a lot but one doesn't steal another mans girl even if that other man is only a boy.

[11:15]Psycho Fhang pushes gera against the tree and starts tieing her to it before I remove her cuffs

[11:19] Psycho Fhang steps closer to gera and runs his hands over her stretched taught body admireing the feel of her curves and the muscles underneath

[11:20] Gera Heliosense sobs and whimpers, her arms are almost pulled out of their joints, she looks at him pleadingly through tears

[11:20] Psycho Fhang: you shall be my most cherished treasure darling

[11:22] Psycho Fhang: the goddess has brought you to me and hear it is you shall stay

[11:22] Gera Heliosense stares at him, eyes wide and scared and innocent, she searches for glimpse of humanity in his face, she is scared that" cherished" will mean pain and fear.

[11:22] Gera Heliosense: Please Mr. Psycho...do not hurt me anymore.

[11:24] Psycho Fhang: ohh darling I know you can endure a lot more pain, but I don't like inflicting pain on my possesions of course unless I have to, is this uncomfortable for you?

[11:26] Gera Heliosense: Y..yesss"she sobs, while hot tears run down her flushed cheeks.

[11:27] Psycho Fhang slides his hand down your body across your firm tummy and slowly over your soft folds "" perhaps we can find a more comfortable position for you. would you like that?"

[11:28] Gera Heliosense hick ups from crying so hard and nods, her doe eyes pleading with him.

[11:30] Psycho Fhang smiles at her as she looks at him her big soft eyes pleading with him pleases him as I withdraws his hand from her body and slides the sawhorse between her legs and begins lowering her down onto the sawhorse

[11:34] Gera Heliosense widens her eyes in horror, machinses and objects ,inserted in to her have always made her so uncomfortable and miserable, there is a trauma she had endured once , that Psucho does not know abot. She screams and tires to free herself, her wrist are soon raw and bloddy from her struggles.

[11:37] Psycho Fhang: notices the bad effect this is haveing on her and smileing at her bends down and turns the crank faster forceing her open even more "bad girls get bad treatment . do you understand this concept gera?""

[11:37] Gera Heliosense: take it away,,, oh please...it hurts me

[11:39] Psycho Fhang stops turning the crank and retracts it from gera, then pulling the saw horse from between her legs. grasping the rope he loosens it from the tree lowering her to sit on the ground

[11:40] Gera Heliosense: She sinks to the sand weeping.

[11:43] Psycho Fhang kneels next to her and wraps ropes around her binding her to the trunk of the tree

[11:44] Gera Heliosense: watches him lethargic, she is too shocked and sore and miserable.

[11:46] Psycho Fhang: now my little treasure don't look so sad you will be treated like a prize possession an honored guest once you accept the fact your here to stay and will never leave this beach again

[11:47] Gera Heliosense: She watches him tired and confused.

[11:48] Gera Heliosense: but this beach...is Glint...I don't understand

[11:49] Psycho Fhang: ahh this beach is my home now it is a separate colony from the rest of glint what is allowed to happen in that town will not be allowed to happen here

[11:50] Gera Heliosense: she tries to crasp his words"you mean..." she whispers, you are the leader here?...but...the Glint government....la presidente....

[11:50] Gera Heliosense: I m a citzen of Glint

[11:51] Psycho Fhang: that citizen of glint crap means nothing here your a female granted a very beautiful female but never the less female and shall be expected to act like one

[11:52] Gera Heliosense looks up, her lips quiver"

[11:53] Gera Heliosense: you have betrayed me.

[11:54] Psycho Fhang: I have not betrayed you in any way I was true to you refuseing to have sex with anyone else besides you

[11:56] Gera Heliosense: She suddenly stops and gasps

[11:56] Gera Heliosense: you...refused to...have sex with anyone...because of...me?

[11:57] Psycho Fhang:  yes

[11:57] Gera Heliosense: Her dark, moist eyes watch him alert, a new expression in them

[11:58] Psycho Fhang: I  turned them down because it wasn't you

[11:58] Gera Heliosense: she is still sobbing softly but regards him with a new awareness, a strange sensation folds around her, deep inside.

[12:00] Psycho Fhang: so don't give me that crap that I betrayed you, darling I have never betrayed you and yes I posted a sign trying to warn you to not enter this beach because I knew I could not resist you.

Nancy walked by casually as if the scene she saw perfectly normal.

[12:03] Nancy Khaos: hello Mr Fang

[12:03] Nancy Khaos: hello gera

[12:03] Psycho Fhang: hello nancy darling

[12:03] Gera Heliosense is studying him, her expression soft and surprised, her body trembles with exhaustion.

[12:05] Psycho Fhang: so my little treasure now you are here and now you are mine.

[12:06] Gera Heliosense: She looks around:"But I can not stay here...i am the curator of Glint...and ..and...my babies...and Legion and Ma'am..."

[12:11] Psycho Fhang: your babies will be fine Legion will mother them just as he's been doing and the rest is no longer your concern. Nothing else exists for you except me and this beach...

And then, there is darkness.

I lift my head. From far away I hear the sound of rolling thunder. It comes closer...closer...I press my hands to ears. The ground beneath me is shaking. The sky turns purple, then black. That terrible sound, piercing in my ears, exploding in my head...

I don't know how long I had been unconscious, and how many hours or days after that I had been laying in apathy. But now I was awake. 

I had survived. Again. I am a Citizen of Glint. We must survive everything the gods throw upon us.

My children. I must find the children.

I stumbled to my feet. I was thirsty.

I looked about. Glint had changed. Bleak and black, like a negative from a photography.

I put one foot before the other. And started walking...