in warm ...


But ... I think I have other problems now. A man had spoken ... had to be a bit older, at almost 16 you're not a child anymore ... but I don't care, I like being a child. I just don't like being valued at 12. I don't look that young either ... I guess I'm digressing again, now I didn't even notice what was happening around me ... I can open my eyes again without any problems. Right in front of me is a face, an older man ... probably the one who spoke.

"She opens her eyes!"


Don't scream so loud, there was silence all day long ... apart from a certain waterfall.


I take a closer look around, there are many people around me, but all of them are older, as I notice, I don't see anyone under 50.


"Did they send you forward? That wasn't very wise of them."


You? Who she? um ... should I say that out loud now? I think they're waiting for something ...


“You? Who are you?” Good child! Always talk nicely ...


"Don't be stupid! Do you know what you did to us?" and then to the others "Take your positions again, the child is alone, no danger! We will take you with us!"


Children? Danger? What on earth is going on here? No, I'm not saying that out loud now ... You gesture for me to get up and follow them. One is walking behind me too, I could escape. Great, prisoners of a couple of grandpas ... and grandmas, okay. Equal rights for everyone, I'm not like that.

The others have gone in the meantime, but not down into the city, but sideways again into the darkness.


"Did they send you?" Think about it ... No! um ... "No!" That I always have to forget ... "Nobody sent me, I just got lost ... at least I think so."


"Lost, I guess you could say ... so if you come out of town, you're really wrong here."


"But ... this is a city."


"Where are you from? You have no idea, do you?" The man who was talking to me all the time turns around ... looks me in the eye. "Like Mela ..." he only mumbled the words softly, but I understood them.


"I come from further away, yes. But ... what's going on here? Where are the younger ones?"


"They are in their city, we are outcasts, we are useless ... and if we do manage to do something they might need, they come and attack us. They run down the slopes, by the thousands ..."

I look into the distance, can see that the city lies in a kind of hollow, the slope goes all around.


Um ... where did the river go? I didn't notice a waterfall at all ... well, if it would flow in here, everything would be under water ... If I can, I'll have a look during the day. If I can....


Has he already continued? No, he's looking at me ... do I have to say something? first think about it ... what did he get from again? Damn short term memory! Wait ... outcasts! It is worth a try.


“Outcasts?” Somehow I feel ridiculous, I should talk more often, not think so often ... don't think such shit.