Memories Of Green: San Francisco #5

MoG San Francisco continues with another visit to Galen’s distraught parents.

 

Date – 01/07/2089

 

Subject – Visit

 

Went to see Dee and Saul again today. It seems like things are getting worse instead of better in the Inclusion Zone. The air is hot and I could barely breathe out in the main square. I hurried inside their little hut before I started coughing too badly. The C.P on patrol shone their flashlights through the smoke at me as I walked. I can only imagine what the air is doing to my baby.

Saul seemed a little better this time. Dee told me he’s been keeping this boy company for the last few days, playing catch with him in the square, telling him stories, you know. While me and Dee talked the two of them sat cross legged on the floor on the other side of the room, talking about the farm. Dee said that Saul had taken the kid under his wing like one of his own. She said the kid reminded Saul of Galen when he was a boy.

I told Dee about my baby outside while she was smoking (See you in eight months cigarettes.). I couldn’t judge whether she was shocked or happy. They’ve always wanted grandchildren, but I guess not like this. She said nothing and hugged me but the dust on her clothes started to choke me so I had to pull away. She said we shouldn’t tell Saul yet, not with everything else that’s happened. Let him settle first, she told me.

Dee told me that C.P came to the door the other day and asked when Saul was going to work in the Industrial Sector. How could they?! The man is sixty seven years old, he can barely climb stairs without gasping for breath. Dee told them that he needs some time to recover and apparently they walked away without saying a work. She doesn’t know whether they’ll come back. I hope they don’t.

Saul came out of the house with the boy. He’d given the kid one of the bright red apples that he’d brought with him from the farm. He said they didn’t have many left, but he promised the boy that he wouldn’t find nicer food in the city. The boy looked at it like he’d never seen anything like it before. Then Saul ruffled his hair and the boy ran off across the square, cupping the apple in his hands.

 

A gunship swept overhead and the air turned the apple from red to grey in an instant.

 

I forgot to bring Saul any medicine.

 

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