You see ads all over your home town. You wonder if what you're seeing is real. The ad states that you would get $20,000 if you were in the town square at exactly 12:00 this afternoon. $20,000 is more than this entire town has, much less you, a mere child. You go, like an obedient puppy, to the town square at exactly 12:00. And no one ever sees...
more »You see ads all over your home town. You wonder if what you're seeing is real. The ad states that you would get $20,000 if you were in the town square at exactly 12:00 this afternoon. $20,000 is more than this entire town has, much less you, a mere child. You go, like an obedient puppy, to the town square at exactly 12:00. And no one ever sees you again.
You open your eyes to find doctors standing over you. You can't move. You realize your on an operating table. The doctors leave, and though you scream for help, no one hears. When they come back in a few hours later, they roughly drag you to face a row of cages. They tell you to pick one. You look around and see every type of animal you've ever heard of, some attacking the bars and howling in anger, others calmly staring up at you. The minute you touch the one you have chosen, you feel an electric shock course through your body. And from that moment you are bonded to that animal-
Now and Forever.
Nothing can break this spell. You can sense that animal, you can talk to each other in your mind, among other things. But you don't have time to contemplate this, because the doctors throw you into a giant room, so big you cannot see the walls or ceiling. It looks like a miniature world, and you pick up a note off the grassy floor. THIS IS YOUR HOME NOW. YOU CAN EITHER SETTLE DOWN OR ROAM. THINK OF IT AS THE WORLD RECREATED. AND YOU WERE SELECTED TO HELP THE WORLD START OVER. YOU MUST LEARN TO FEND FOR YOURSELF, OR DIE. you drop the note like it's cursed, and run with your bonded animal until you're more lost than you were a minute ago. What are you going to do?
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