23 - A pretty unbelievable story
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| Octavia | Bolt Lincoln Octavia | Bolt Octavia |
..right?
I still think what they are telling us cannot be true! And sure they can build an extra boat as well? That quickly turned into them asking for things we don't have. As if we would have a motor to drive a boat just lying around doing nothing, not being turned into something useful. Hah! That's an insult against us gearheads!
Let's have a look around our Ark to see if anything useful is in there to build a boat? Though the Elder not being around anymore might give me the option to use some of the walls for other purposes. I loved the old guy, but he wouldn't let me change much to the Ark. I actually don't think he would have liked my pipe job below the water supply if we were able to tell him about it.
Timing is everything they say. Harper has left the Ark and this is the first time we ever get to look at his quarters. And sure these people are around and then we find something in his quarters that's going to help. He had been using one of the rescue sloops of the Ark as a roof above his bed or something? Not that I know what a sloop is or that our Ark needed them. Them silly people keep telling us our Ark was a big boat as well? As if this big thing could float, and it's on land for the Elder's sake!
So we have a boat now, it's full of holes and does not have one of those motors they speak about. And what's the worst thing? Now we need to fix it ourselves as well. Useless! Though I'm not sure we would have recognized the thing in Harper's room as being a boat. Not going to tell them that!
Away we go!
I still do not understand the reason why we need to help these people. They understand a boat, sure! Still a bad story if you ask me! Moving machine that looks like a person and orders people around that all look the same? Hah!
But I'm not going to let the others go without me, what if they need my help on something technical? It's like not helping Sabine with her stuff, I had to repair most of her equipment yesterday again. A good one, I have some time left to fix up a rot suit for Rianna. I'll spend some quality time effort on it and make it good.
Leaving was a little less glorious than I hoped for, having no motor for our boat, we had to use a rope attached to theirs to pull us forward in the water. They promised us a real boat when we got at their place though! And what if part of their story is actually true, what will we find? Am I a little excited now? Bah!
We followed the river south, not quite going as fast as they said we could go, but they were blaming that on us needing to be pulled of course. Water travel wasn't really bad, it was steady and we were passing land pretty quickly. We still couldn't swim, though after some quick foolery by Rianna in the water she was convinced she could swim. We didn't see anything living on land, but it sure felt like we saw shadows moving there. We passed a big upright wheel of some kind, there were big cups on the wheel and things moving on it. Tesla used her binoculars to have a look and though they were Zone Ghouls, not going there then. After that we passed an island made of floating boats with people on it. I would have guessed our group wanted to stop there as they always want to stop everywhere when we get outside the Ark. Ah well not this time, we just passed on by.
The big water
After that the river turned wide. Extremely wide! They called it something else, but I forgot the name. And soon after we saw smoke on the horizon. Not just some simple smoke, but a hell of a lot of smoke. And when we got close it appeared that one of their water tower things was up in flames. Guess their story about the towers in the water were not so much crap I guess.
Things suddenly got even worse as the flaming tower got even worse and exploded in a huge ball of flame. Boats started to move from one of the other towers toward it and we were spotted as well.
A small one man boat thingie and a little bit bigger boat with two people on it moved our way pretty quickly. Not that we really had a plan, but this wasn't really how it was meant to go, right?
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