Where are we?

Sashe ran after the girl that took Kath. Was this girl trustworthy? Where was she taking Kath? Why was she taking Kath? Questions raced through Sashe's worried and scared mind. Both of her legs throbbed in agonizing pain as she kept running. It was fine though because the adrenaline numbed the pain enough anyways.

Sashe wasn't as fast as this lady, even though the girl wore a black, slick dress. That was fine though since it was easy to follow the crimson red trail left behind by Kath's blood. Oh she hoped he was still alive. 'Just follow on step after step,' she told herself. The pain shooting up her thighs could wait, this was more important.

Back in high school Sashe was a cross country runner. She would run for hours and wouldn't be in pain. Before her legs got crushed, she had planned to run a marathon. Now she couldn't even run a mile let alone twenty six of them.

Even now as Sashe sprinted at full speed she was stumbling on all the fallen debris in the road. Wires, road signs, and chunks of cement were strewn across the roadways for miles. Broken and burnt up cars lay with them, sometimes visible in the dense rubble. Sashe kept tripping over the debris, she felt the cuts that went deep into her feet. She still had her shoes from four years ago, but that didn't stop the rubble from digging into her legs and feet.

It felt like hours before the lady stopped running. Sashe was lightheaded and wobbling, her ankles up to her flutes burned with a pain she had never felt before. Kath's bleeding had mostly stopped and there was only a sharp piece of glass sticking out from his left side. The girl in the black dress looked over to Sashe. She was only mildly fatigued and that was with carrying Kath all the way to this place. Sashe looked to where she brought them. It was an abandoned hotel, but unlike most other buildings its structure and even its windows were still intact.

 "Elena you're back," an older woman greeted her before turning and looking behind her. "And who's this friend you've brought?" She asked as she scanned Sashe over with her eyes. Elena gestured over to Sashe while she laid Kath down on a hotel couch which was clearly a homemade hospital bed. "I'm Sashe, I was with Kath when a building collapsed and Elena brought us back here." As Sashe said that her legs finally gave out, and she fell to the ground.

Sashe woke up in a hotel room on the first story of the hotel. The bed was soft with white pcovers and she lay on freshly fluffed pillows. Sashe couldn't help but to lay in this bed and close her eyes for a few minutes. Yes there was a bunch of pain in her swollen and over worked legs, but the last time Sashe had slept in a nice and made bed was years ago. After laying in bed for a while Sashe got up and looked around the room. It was an average size for a hotel room, four white walls and a white ceiling. A wooden desk at the end of the room next to her bed. There was even a counter with a metallic bowl at the center. A single strawberry was in the bowl which sent Sashe into shock. She hadn't seen an organic piece of fruit for a very long time. Everything was synthetic now and they'd usually only find what the organization left behind. Wait, was this part of the organization?

Sashe leaped out of the room while limping on her right leg. Out in the lobby, the middle aged woman was sitting watching over Kath. As Sashe runs into the lobby the lady looks over to Sashe, "Oh hello sweetie, are you feeling better?" Sashe paused, not because she was talking to this lady but because she heard a very subtle beep.

"How," Sashe gasped as she marveled at the machine in front of her. It was a working heart monitor. "Electricity isn't supposed to work." Sashe's eyes gaped at this marvel. "Well, we took a gamble." The lady smiled warmly. "While whatever censor the people who started this war have is good at detecting AC, it can't detect DC." Sashe thought for a second then asked a fatal question, "Why can it detect AC and not DC?"

An hour later Sashe sat quietly as this lady went on about electrical currents. Something about DC being constant and AC having change. This lady never even told Sashe her name, yet she kept going on and on about electricity. Sashe didn't want to be rude since she was also the one literally saving Kath's life. Finally, after another hour sluggishly passed, she stopped talking. The lady didn't stop talking because she had nothing else to say about electriciy though. She stopped talking because Kath started to wake up.

"What?" Kath woke up as stoic as always, he seemed slightly disappointed to Sashe though and she dind't know why. Kath's back felt as if fire had engulfed it, he should've been in too much pain to sit up, but nevertheless he sat up without so much as a grunt. Then, Kath stood up and walked like he'd never been hurt to begin with. Both Sashe and the lady gasped as he did this, it should've been impossible. A second later Kath turned to the lady, "Where is she?" The lady looked at him, shocked as not a bit of pain surfaced in his voice. She knew who Kath was referring to. "She's on the roof, you'll have to-" Kath ran up the stairwell. Sashe was stunned, she'd never seen Kath run like this, even in dire situations he was always calm, composed, and stoic. Now, he looked angry, Sashe was scared what was about to happen.