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HolySword said:
“Hey! Rosette! It’s time to pay attention!” My best friend Iris yelled at me from her seat next to me. I blinked once at the red-haired girl, her emerald eyes filled with worry.
“Pay… attention?” I asked and then understood. It was time for the World Announcements from our leader, who called themselves Ember. “I hate these stupid morning announcements,” I groaned, “It’s always the same. ‘Defy me and you’ll die’. It’s so repetitive!”
Iris gasped. “Don’t let anyone hear you say that! Ember might kill you!”
I scoffed. “Kill me? Ember won’t kill me.”
Iris almost flipped. “Rosette, don’t say that! Our classmates might start to think that you’re Ember! They already think you’re a freak.”
I sighed. It was true. Everyone in our class thought I was a freak. My long, straight black hair, death-pale skin, and purple-red eyes made me look like I was a blood-sucking freak. Most people would have found my choices in clothing, short skirts, tight jeans, ripped tights, chunky boots, leather jackets, and a lot of spikes and chains, weird, too, but that was the world dress code. Ember was like a demon, and wanted all the people in the world to be like that, too. Why people let Ember take over was a mystery to me. But I did know why nobody rebelled against Ember. People would die in the streets. Healthy people who shouldn’t just collapse and die. It was the work of Ember, creating a fear-run world.
I hated Ember. I hated living in a world full of fear and hate. It’d been that way for a long time, according to my grandma. She said that one day, thousands of people dropped dead on the streets at one moment, and then every channel switched to a broadcast proclaiming the reign of Ember. Nobody knew who he or she was.
“I don’t care what they think of me,” I said, “It’s all lies anyway. And besides, who really cares-”
“Rosette LeKnight,” the class supervisor- no, not teacher. We didn’t have teachers.- said as she popped up in from of me, seemingly from nowhere, “This is no time for talking. One more referral and… well, you know what happens then.”
I sat up in my seat and nodded. I knew very well what would happen then.
The supervisor snorted and walked off. As she walked off, I made a face at her, Iris chuckled a bit. Then, the screen wall turned on, the usual static broadcast came on
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