Chapter 3:

Clash of social classes

Lancaster


"Your head! We need to do something" says Esteban worried about Alyx, and at the same time he got creeped out by Alyx's reactions, so he thinks to himself " What are we gonna do? Think Esteban, think". For the first time in a long time Esteban don't know what to do and where to go, this whole situation shocked everyone and he started to get hopeless but thats when he hears a voice.

"Woiiii, kids, everything alright? Need some help?"

Esteban sees a man that he didn't see before, "Hey, who are you?"

"I'm Kristopher Walker, nice to meet you, I see you kids have some injuries, follow me I can take you to the headquarter"

"Headquarter? What are you talking about?"

"Trust me kid, follow me, I'll take care of those injuries"

Esteban starts to get a little bit suspicious, but since they don't have anywhere to stay and the fact that those injuries needed to be healed, took him to accept the invite, "Ok we'll go with you", Esteban puts Alyx on piggybacks and so they started to walk.

"So tell me, what's your name?"

"My name is Esteban and his name is Alyx"

"Alright... I see your arm is in pretty bad conditions, what happened?" 

"Ahm this, when the explosions occurred I was at home and one of the walls dropped and smashed my arm" Esteban's arm was really in bad conditions, you could even see his bone exposed. "It hurts a little, but I'm more worried about Alyx, his head is bleeding and he started to act a little weird, when I found him I looked at his house and it was all destroyed, so I guess he falled into the ground and had a severe concussion"

"Don't worry, in the headquarter he have some medicine supplies, you two are going to be just fine. By the way, do you kids have families?"

"Both of my parents are missing, at this point I don't know if they are dead, Alyx's dad was decapitated by one of the explosions, and a close friend of him, Maria, is missing, but you know, she might as well be dead just like my parents. But I'm staying positive, I think we will find them one day" Esteban smiles.

Kristopher smiles back, " Both of you are stronger that some adults I've seen"

After walking for some time, passing by pastures and hills, they finnaly arrive at the headquarter.

"Welcome to the headquarter" says Kristopher, " I'm responsible for this place, I've gathered people just like you that have some injuries, and that don't have a place to stay. Here we can share our storys and try to overcome this situation by planning and work with each others"

"Wowww Kristopher, this is awesome" the called (headquarter) is a big house made out of wood that Kristopher and some of the people that live with him built together, besides that it's located in the middle of a valley so it's more protected from the attacks.

"Come here kids", they enter the nursery," this is the nursery, and this is John Gurley, the responsable for healing the injuries of our group"

"Welcome kids, I'm John, nice to meet you, please sit here let me treat your wounds"

Esteban sits Alyx in the nursery bench, he was sleeping all this time since they left the abandoned park, but finally he wakes up, a little confuse tho, so thats when Esteban and Kristopher explained to Alyx the situation.

"Look kids, our group it's made of 15 people, 17 now with both of you. Here we cooperate, so you'll need to work for the group. For example John, he is the nurse, everyone has a role, that could be hunting, cleaning, cooking and so on. Besides that, all of the members cooperate in a plan that consists in take down the north kingdom royal family, and begin a new dinasty."

" Whattt? Take down the royal family? That´s impossible" Alyx says.

"Yeah kid I know it's really hard, since the royal family lives on the top of a mountain that can only be accessed by the royal family itself, but it needs to be done. The royal family is the richest family in the kingdom, everyone in the population has horrible conditions to live in, and the king and his family prefer to kill the population rather than help them with money or food, isn't the job of a king to cooperate with the population and make people's lifes better? Not just that but the royal family has access to new tecnology like nuclear power and communication devices, they are mocking us"

Alyx and Esteban recognize the situation, so Alyx exclaims "You´re right, if comparing the royal family and the population's wealth and access to tecnology the difference is huge, we are ruled by tyrants.... so what's the plan now?"

"Every night we have a reunion where we discuss the plan step by step, we will talk there, not to mention that you need to be prepared for any occasional attack. About your role here in the HQ you have 1 day to decide, it's that ok?"

"YESSS SIRR" both Alyx and Esteban said, they were happy that finally they fond a place they can be more safe and the possibility to overcome the situation even though it's going to be really hard.

Is the plan going to work properly?

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