# 3 | View: Barbara



There's something back there that looks like ... light! Electric light! I go on, see more and more ... the next slope is coming, it has covered the city, or whatever. how many level is that now? wouldn't be bad to know ...

The one with the window, the one with the spring, the waterfall, the city ... I hope I haven't forgotten anything.

I am about to slide down the slope, there are spotlights going on everywhere ... I go to the ground blinded.

I perceive steps, a babble of voices ... I try to look up, but my eyes have not yet got used to the brightness.

What language do you think they speak? I found that really illogical at HDM ... the worlds all have the same language, although ... you can tell on earth how many languages ​​have developed there, and ... in the other worlds everyone should speak English ?

But I'm torn out of my thoughts ...
"A child?" German? Hey, because of you guys, I can throw all my theories overboard!

Theories ... I've already proposed a lot ... you freeze less in cold water than 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 indicate to 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 that ... "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 are 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 town, we are outcasts, we are useless ... and if we manage to do something they might need, they come and attack us. They run down the slopes, by the hundreds ..."

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 flowed 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 it from again? Damn short term memory! Wait ... outcasts! It is worth a try.

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



"Yes, the young ... well, the strong, those who have the power ... They no longer need us, we are dumped here. You save yourself a lot of trouble, because many of us need care, we can no longer take care of survival. "

"And everyone allows that? That you will just be taken away?" I am proud of myself to say a sentence without thinking stupid things ... but better to be alone? I'm probably not made for large communities either.

"The young ones, they are still attached to us, but the contacts are cut off and they learn why it is necessary ... we have learned that too, because the old have been evacuated for ages.Over the years we have built up this city and are now getting along well, but the boys became jealous and send armies of children to take our work off again.

We have to fight our own grandchildren! These ... monsters! The ... you are strong, you can command ... "

"I'm ... sorry." No, it really is! I'm glad I don't live in this world ... or do I? Will i come back again

“Don't be.” He can see how worried I looked.

"But ... what does a little girl like you do up there alone in the middle of the night?" Little girl ... Oh my god, I'm almost 16! Why does every idiot misjudge me? Um ... truth? I'm bad at lying, liars must have good memories ... I guess I only have one choice. Or ...

"I ... got lost." Little by little the truth will come out, but ... maybe he's too lazy to ask ... I'm comparing everyone with myself again, that's not good. ..
"And where are you from? If you don't come from the other city ... from which level?"

Oh, hard question ... is this level 1? Wouldn't be bad to know ... but rather the truth right away.

"I ... I don't know. There are no such steps where I come from."

"Maybe ... Come on, I'll introduce someone to you. But ... no, better tomorrow, it's late. Aren't you freezing?" Then I realize ... I'm starving! I haven't eaten anything in more than 24 hours, my stomach is full of water ... should I say that? That I'll starve to death, I mean. Well, I'm freezing too ...

"Well, a little cold ..."

"Come with me, my wife will run you in a hot bath, and afterwards you can have a drink or something to eat ... and then you go to bed.

I really am a little girl ... What the heck, a bath will be good for me, my feet are also hurting a lot in the meantime. We've been walking for a while now, the city is big, it fills this whole lower level ... nice to know the right word for it, because the lower level sounds wrong ...
As far as I can tell, most of the houses are single-story, which is kind of logical, if all the old people had to climb stairs too, it would be tough. But ... what do they live on? Maybe I'll find out tomorrow or so, I'm getting more and more tired ... finally, we're going to a doorway.

Is someone talking to me? I'm getting more and more tired ... do I still have my eyes open? I'm sitting ... maybe I'll wait for the water to be let in.

Somebody taps me on the shoulder. I think if I want to eat more, I have to react ...

I look up.

"Yes?" "The water is let in, the bathroom is over here. I can wash your clothes for you overnight, you can have a nightgown from me." Nightgown? I take a closer look ... a woman is talking to me, probably the man who brought me here. "Do you want to eat something afterwards?" "Yes, thank you ..." Tired, I stagger in the direction indicated above. A bath ... the tub is embedded in the floor, I slide carefully into it ... pleasant ...
Stop! How tired am I actually? I still have my clothes on! I quickly pull myself out of the tub, look around ... a sink! Head down, cold water on ... awake! The bathroom door is still open, let's close it ... out of our wet clothes and into the bathtub. There are buttons on the wall ... and a handrail that you can lower down. Suitable for the elderly ... but the buttons? Anyway, I'm hungry, and when I want something to eat ... clean I climb out of the tub, look for a towel ...



Now I'm dry, but ... clothes? I don't feel like mine now, they are full of dirt ...

I'm tired ... should I just lie down here on the floor?

At home I only slept on the floor for the last few days ... I haven't got anything on ... tired ...

Where was that damn sink?

I can think clearly again! Then I remember ... where are my glasses? Oh, I notice that early ... no, I don't have them on.This morning I still had it ... on the stupid stone maybe, under the waterfall ... take a look tomorrow.

Wrapped in a towel, I'm looking for the old woman who will have clothes.

"Oh, did I forget to put something to wear for you? Wait, I'll look for something quickly, maybe I still have something in your size ... Mela ..." It will probably have been the daughter or granddaughter or something, they miss her apparently still.

In a film I would definitely solve this problem between the old people and the others, everything would be fine, they would take this Mela in their arms ... I have a really nice final scene going through my head.

She must have found something in my size, I quickly retreat to the bathroom and come back in an old pajama.

"Tomorrow you can wear your own clothes again, I'll wash them for you overnight ..."

It's slowly bothering me that I've lost my glasses ... I can still see everything, but in the distance it's just blurry.

first eat something ... if I hadn't disappeared, there would definitely be the collected chanterelles with omelets at home. Maybe you will eat it anyway ... what do you think where I am? Are you worried? Did you let the police know? How should I ever go home, what should I say where I was?