Ellie was trudging along the side of the highway, well. Not the side of it, she'd be easily spotted there. She was further to the side, skulking amongst the bushes, it was only a day ago she'd stolen the food from the soldier's bike but her stomach was screaming for more. She hadn't had a decent meal since she was in New Zealand. Before she'd
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She had her hands in her jeans pocket and was about to round the corner when she heard a girl gasp. Alice looked at her. She had dark hair, and the sort of eyes that said she had things to tell that you'd never find out. Alice's sort of person.
"Hello."
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"Hi." The sentence short and clipped. There were a million and one things she wanted to ask Alice; 'where am I?', 'who are you?', 'are we both dead?', 'is the War over yet?'
Ellie, however, kept her silence.
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She smiled what she hoped looked like a welcoming smile. "Have you just arrived?"
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"Camp 16." Her tone matter-of-fact. In Ellie's opinon, anyone who knew of Camp 16 and it's nature would be rather certain that this would be Ellie Linton...Even her assumed name wouldn't help her.
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"Do you know what year it was?"
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Ellie took a step backwards, she rather felt like she was being interrogated. "I don't know anything, I'm just a kid who's been hiding in the bush since the War began." She attempted one of the tactics the Kiwis had told her.
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"It does matter, because where I come from, there's no war to speak of. You're at a hotel called Hotel California. I'm from the year 2004. There's... all kinds of people here from all over the world." She figured she'd mention the whole "and we can't leave" bit when she could tell if the girl was going to hit her or not.
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"I was shot again wasn't I? This is a hallucination...or..." she swallowed, "or I'm dead..."
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"I hate him. He's so creepy." She shook her head. "I'm sorry we're stuck here. And I'm sorry you're here at all."
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Her head shot to Alice, "what do you mean we're stuck here?!"
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