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2024-10-29 19:42:56"Wow wow wow! Is that real? Is this a joke?" Ethan exclaimed partly excited, partly jittered, losing his composure the moment he saw the funds which was actually what he checked before the UI of Interactive blue transparent displayed screen vanished.
Terranova: "you earned it, Ethan. And please comport yourself, you're beginning to draw attention."
Ethan looked around and observed a good number of people chattering and staring right at him, he quickly waved at an incoming taxi and at the same time, took out his cellphone and checked his bank account balance to be sure.
"Yes! O my gosh!" Ethan exclaimed enthusiastically clenching the fist of his left hand to express how happy he was as he entered the taxi.
"Where to? Dickhead." The taxi driver asked after waiting and wondering why he wouldn't tell him his destination a couple of minutes after he had entered his taxi.
"Deer Creek Diner, please." Ethan said not minding the name the guy just called him. At this point, nothing could corrupt his happiness because he had just confirmed that the $3000 USD balance was real.
Ethan alighted with a full distended gravity of ecstasy around his cheek and a happy look in his eyes as he went straight to the eatery feeling rich because that was the first time in his entire life he was having such amount of money in his bank account.
He felt dignified when he sat on one of the roundtable chairs and requested for a Pierogies, fried catfish and shrimp platter with a bottle of red wine immediately after a waitress approached him with a menus. She wondered who he was because she could identify the faces of the people who patronize them regularly and he's a totally new face. Deer Creek Diner happens to be the only functional eatery outside the walls of the capitol hill.
"Gosh, this is tasty!" Ethan's vocals vibrated delightfully as he smutched a mouthful of shrimp and added a spoon of pierogi's without taking his eyes off his meal. Unkowning to him, the waitress was staring from a distance, sitting on a contemporary chair with her left side jaw resting on the palm of her hands.
Terranova: "I think you've got an admirer, Ethan."
Ethan's brows clunched in wonder before he lifted his face and looked around to see for himself. In half a minute, he noticed the waitress staring at him as their eyes collided, he had to bring down his face shyly again.
"I don't think so, Terra. Maybe she's hungry. Everyone is hungry nowadays, even a cordon bleu, so, get over it." He muttered to disagree with the resurgent system.
Terranova: "I know exactly what I am saying."
"Knock it off, terra. I have a girlfriend already and I can't wait to see her. I just need to purchase a ticket into the Capitol Hill." Ethan asserted showing no interest at all.
Terranova: "I wonder how much the ticket cost..."
Sighs*
"I thought you know everything. Well, one ticket cost $5000 dollar." Ethan mumbled.
Terranova: "uh-oh, she's on her way to you."
"What?... Whaaah! Emmmmm." Ethan panicked and swallowed hard the bolus in his mouth as he lifted his eyes to see the waitress actually heading towards him.
Terranova: "be cool, Ethan."
"Hi! Aah, I hope you're enjoying the meal?" The waitress asked with a cheerful smile like sunrise on her face whilst she grabbed one side chair to sit next to him.
Ethan first looked around to see if there was anyone else staring but the few customers were all minding their business, and so he was confident enough to talk,
"Yeah, sure. I guess you prepared it?" He asked because she seems to be the only one in the eatery who was serving...
"Nope. We have the kitchen over there." She said, pointing at a door close to the front desk.
"So?"
"Oh, my dad and my best friend, Emma. They both prepare the foods while I serve. Sometimes, Emma had to play the role of a bartender whenever customers are much. Though we barely have more than twelve people frequenting the eatery ever since the awakening that formed the alliance and brought about the segregation." She gasped and looked away briefly.
"I see! What's your name?" Ethan asked and felt comfortable to be interacting with her.
"Isabell Wells. And you are?" She replied with a nudge to shake his hand.
"Ethan, Ethan Hills." He said stretching his right hand to reach out for hers.
"Nice meeting you." She said affectionately.
Cleared throat* "same. So, what about your mom?" Ethan asked after a moment of silence as they stared right into each others eyes.
"About her? Ummm... She was lucky. And she forgot us sooner than we expected. We only get to see her when she comes with some members of the faction in her sect to both deliver food and also take out raw materials back to the capitol hill." She replied sad-faced.
"Awful. What's hers? Did you get to know?" Ethan asked sympathetically.
"They call themselves the parrhesia-dauntless. They are the faction gifted with extraordinary strength to fight. I believe that's the reason they play the role of collection and protection." She explained.
"They are the ones protecting the capitol hill, is that it?" He asked to know more because it seems she knows about what's going on inside the capitol hill of which he was clueless about.
"Yeah. You don't know that?" She asked as though it was strange for him to not know. She felt he was pretending until she saw the sincerity in his eyes.
"No. I don't. All I want is to find a way to get into the D.C. United, maybe I could earn it into the Capitol Hill or better still stay there and stand a better chance of survival than outside here in the wild."
Isabell scoffed and suppressed her laughter so she could talk sense into him because she knew he needed it... "What makes you think getting into D.C. United means you're safe? Gosh! What was he thinking... Listen, Ethan. D.C. United is like an arena designed for a game of death. The factions built it to entertain themselves every day. People who go in from among us ends up fighting in the arena against those bioactivated beasts you are trying to run from. Why do you think nobody ever comes out after going into D.C united?..."
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Isabell raised her hand immediately in a way that made Madison clear her throat and was like "okay, who else is willing to come in with her?""I will." Arnold said lifting his hand. "No, not you Arnold. I don't need you to come now. I know why. Max, Greg? Which one of you is willing to come in?" Ethan asked thoughtfully and it was obvious that he does not want to lose Arnold as he has done his friend Parker. "I will go." Max said before Greg could. "Very well then. We have Isabell and Max." Ethan said. Ethan wanted to stop Isabell but he felt it was going to be pointless and he was not also ready for another long hour of conflict and attempts to convince her to accept his apologies. He knew Isabell to be a die hard and incapable of listening when her mind is made up in whatever she has in view, despite the fact that she was obedient to him on several occasions."Okay, that will be enough at the moment. Your assignment, you and Max will be simple. Whatever we discuss and whatever ne
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Madison whispering, said to Ethan, "who is she exactly?" "She is my friend. Why?" Ethan said with a guilty stare. "C'mon Ethan, don't play around. I know what I am asking you and am sure you know as well. Tell me, are you two in any relationship because she loves you from what I see and she is jealous that I am here. This is not going to work out if we are not all focused on one thing." "It is complicated, Madison. Trust me, I can not start talking about it for now. I promise to let you know what is going on sooner. For now, just bear with me and try not to take whatever she says or does into heart. I can't lie to you that I like her a lot but I am not just sure of what to say right now. It is my fault and you can count me as one to be blamed but not her. Please, alright?" Ethan muttered quietly while glancing at Isabell who stood with arms folded at a distance watching him talk with Madison. Madison was quiet for a minute before saying "you had better figure it out. I don't want
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"Alright, I will let my friends know that you are going to help us in this way. I believe it is for the best. Lysbia is going to need a balance again in society and I believe together it is going to be done by us." Ethan finished and they both continued moving. "Wow, this place exists?" Madison exclaimed when they entered Dr Muppet Puppet's room. "Yes, it does." Ethan said and kept looking around.."So many books in this library." Madison said looking very much amazed at the sight of Dr Muppet Puppet's books "Yes, it does. Don't touch anything. Dr Muppet!" Ethan instructed her and then called out with a loud voice. There seems to be no one in here. So he turned and said to Madison, "stay in this room, I will be right back." Ethan left through the front door and shut it on his way out. He first hurried to the house he bought when he was about leaving D.C united. When the taxi driver pulled in front of his house and he stepped out anticipating to see Isabell, the system spoke,Terr
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"Well I was in The laboratory not quite long ago and he walked in and spoken your manner that's made me suggest that you have given him a higher authority than myself. Why should I tell him that I am to deliver an the report of Ethan's test to you myself but still he insisted that he was the one to deliver it and with every amount of Allah creating in his gut!" Madison sputtered with raging eyes. "Well I asked him to be sure he gets it directly to me I never knew you were going to be there." "I suppose he had already told you that I was at the lab when he arrived? Didn't he?" Madison asked. "Well he never did he did not tell me anything about your presence there. And if he had done what should that matter to me? All I needed was this test here. And it appears that we might be in more trouble from what is written here about that young man. Have you looked at what the test says about Ethan Hills?" "Of course I have. And I do not think you should be threatened by it. Whatever it sugg
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"He does not only show signs of an Amity he is also executing potentials of a parrhesia-dauntless. I think this guy is underestimated and he has so much potentials than anyone of Us. Do you buy enemies know who he is before now?" Kim asked with eyes on Madison. "No." She denied. And shifted her gaze from Kim to Ethan who was lying with his eyes still close. "I thought you have an idea who he is before now and if you don't why are you so interested in him?" Kim asked again. "Why should I not be interested when my father is also so much interested in him? I believe whoever my dad has his eyes on is someone worth paying attention to that is why I am here." Madison muttered as she touched Ethan's hands without even realizing she was doing it. Kim looked at her and sensed she was lying about not knowing him. "I see! You have justified yourself for being so interested in him. But forgive me to ask do you even know his name?" "Ethan. His name is Ethan Hills." Madison replied with a low
