020: Home Sweet Home [Location: the Northern Island / Visual]
The Northern Island had been a distinctive feature of the Speares district from the moment that DG had arrived in the city. The palace, frozen in time in a mountain of magically preserved ice, was very different from the artificial buildings that made up most of Taxon. It was real. It was home.
It was gone.
Anger welled up in DG's chest as she stared helplessly at an empty space that had once been hers. It was only when she picked up the tablet to contact Glitch that she spotted a familiar name on the newly configured map. Fury was replaced with confusion and, turning on her heel, DG jumped on her motorbike and hurtled towards Wilde and the shores of the new lake that dominated the area.
A few minutes later, she switched on her tablet.
"It looks like the hamsters decided it was time for a change," she remarked, addressing the camera directly before turning it to show the palace and the icy bridge that connected the small island to the edge of the lake. "The Northern Island really is an island now."
But it was still here. It was still home. She had a lot of gaps in her memories and her knowledge of the O.Z, so it was important for DG to hold on to everything that was familiar. Especially in a city as strange as Taxon. The aliens made it easy to forget where you belonged. She would never forget.
It was gone.
Anger welled up in DG's chest as she stared helplessly at an empty space that had once been hers. It was only when she picked up the tablet to contact Glitch that she spotted a familiar name on the newly configured map. Fury was replaced with confusion and, turning on her heel, DG jumped on her motorbike and hurtled towards Wilde and the shores of the new lake that dominated the area.
A few minutes later, she switched on her tablet.
"It looks like the hamsters decided it was time for a change," she remarked, addressing the camera directly before turning it to show the palace and the icy bridge that connected the small island to the edge of the lake. "The Northern Island really is an island now."
But it was still here. It was still home. She had a lot of gaps in her memories and her knowledge of the O.Z, so it was important for DG to hold on to everything that was familiar. Especially in a city as strange as Taxon. The aliens made it easy to forget where you belonged. She would never forget.