We're Safe Here

[Monty Green]

Monty had thought that he was going to die while he was in that white room, he was safe from the grounders but he had no idea who his captors were or what their plans for him were. Then he went from being scared, isolated and alone to being put in a room with all of his friends who had also been cleared in quarantine. Mount Weather had saved them all and Monty was actually happy there, he felt safe and there weren’t any grounders threatening them with swords or spears or weaponized diseases. Him and his friends were finally safe, how could he not love a place that saved them from being slaughtered by an army of grounders. Earth hadn’t been the paradise that he’d imagined, in fact there were more things trying to kill him down there than there ever had been on the ark and he was a convicted criminal up there waiting for them to carry out his execution.

Monty could almost laugh as he thought about how much everything had changed, just a few days before he’d thought that they were all going to die and now the majority of them were alive and safe. As he walked back into the room that he shared with the rest of the delinquents, he noticed Miller sitting on his bunk and without even allowing a moment to think about it, Monty veered towards his friend and sat down beside him, casually bumping his shoulder against Miller’s as he did so. “What’re you doing?” he asked the other man, unable to stop a smile from making its way onto his face as he waited for an answer.

Nathan Miller