Chapter 7

Cindy cradled onto him again, which plummeted his smile quicker. The inside was like a regular shopping centre, however, the shops were occupied by people for various things.

Some were selling stuff while others were using it for shelter. He also saw that some shops were working and you could enter. He nodded his head in approval.

‘This is perfect, the fact that trade is still open is good as I can still gain goods’

He saw these black and green patches, and everything looked much more dull. The only light source was from the window at the top for the upper floor, and the bottom floor had torches and lanterns hanging from places. It felt like a dungeon. 

He saw a bench and sat down, but before sitting he stopped. 

‘Is somebody come and launch at me?’

Before he could think it through, Cindy’s big butt placed itself onto it. There was again green studd, which looked like moss. However, when he touched it, he noticed the object had turned green. This stuff was spreaded out through the whole city. He thought it was only something small but was surprised how abundant it was. Cumas looked around again to see if there were others, possibly going to smack him down like in the movies. 

Humans minded their own business, which pleased Cumas. Cindy pressed hard against Cumas and started talking. “Hey, how do you feel?” He nodded, “Yeah, I am fine, we just have to find that Daisy, then I can find it out.” 

She pouted, “why do you want to look for that girl that bad, you have one right here,” her face made him laugh.

He was still happy from his theory being right that he was a bit light-headed. She smiled when he did but realised something.

“Where are we going to stay?”

Cumas just realised.

‘I am still locked out of the bunker, well great’

He sighed and said, “I don't know,” giving a sad face. She started thinking and letting herself go from him, and saying, “I don't want to admit it, but we might have to go to the girl then.”

She turned her head so she wasn't facing him. Cumas said, “yeah, she might give us a stay, or we might not find her and be like those guys,” he pointed at the people in the newspaper, acting like homeless people. He broke his trance of happiness when he saw the dark world.

Cindy immediately pulled him over to him. She hugged him. She saw his face blush a lot but Cumas confirmed something.

‘I was too happy over something like this, when did it affect me? How? I have to work it out.’

He moved away from her hug. He turned, having a beet red face, she giggled a bit.

Cumas got up and saw a person walking. He went to them and asked, “hey, do you know where I can find Daisy?” He gave a light smile, but the person overshadowed them.

They sighed, “if you mean her then she will be on the second floor in the toy shop.” 

He mumbled a bit but Cumas said, “thank you very much,” understanding what he said.

The person just moved on. Cumas noticed that he couldn't tell whether they were a boy or a girl, he looked again as being on the first layer there was barely any light, even though there were torches.

‘Armour’

The reason he could not tell was because of the mask they were wearing, a helmet and their clothing was plated with metal. 

‘Is this some RPG?’

He turned his head to see something in the dark distance.

‘Oh, oh no, a gun?’

He moved back to Cindy who was still on the bench. “I know where she is,” he rushley said. Cindy looked perplexed by how his face was.

He pointed at the guy with a gun, she wasn't phased by this, she said, “man, he has a gun.”

‘This isn't a normal reaction, what? Personality change?’

He nodded and said, “It's crazy,” she just smiled. Both moved slowly, Cindy enjoyed it so she wrapped herself over him. 

Cumas let it happen.

‘She might find out’

He hid his expression as he couldn't control it. A twitch around his eyes, his teeth were showing as he was biting lip. His face was tense and wrinkles were forming. Cindy was constantly glancing suspiciously at him but it was too dark that she couldn't see his expression.

There was a staircase, it still had the same pattern as the rest of the building. It was weird. The light shone down and you could see it so well, it was like a holy scenery. 

A butterfly flew down. It was white, you could see it from a mile away by how it sticks out. People that were just aimlessly glancing around the room saw it and stared. They were mesmerised. Cumas saw Cindy look at it as well, all the people around were doing that. 

‘I know that this is a butterfly, but why?’

He wanted to just walk up stairs. Cindy said to him, “isn't it beautiful, a-”

She didn't finish her sentence and what scared Cumas even more was the fact that a person, who was coming down, stopped immediately when he saw the butterfly. 

It flapped its wings once and ascended, passing the guy. He looked in shok, as if he experienced something traumatising.

‘What tha hell?’

He looked around again and everyone returned to normal. Cindy started walking again and Cumas reluctantly followed her. 

Both went up the stairs, dashing through rapidly. When walking up to god's doorsteps, they had light. It was a bit blinding but it was much better than the place below. 

‘So, why do people stay at the bottom?’

Cumas realised something.

‘What do I want to ask Daisy?’

He bit his lip, looking sad, not realising that he stopped walking. Cindy saw that. Cumas got scared when she stopped and turned to him but she smiled. “I would like to, think about it,” Cumas nodded.

“Let's go then to her,” he said softly. They kept on walking, maintaining a constant pace. Cumas looked around seeing a massive difference to how everything is and feels. First was the natural light. It was always dull as the sun was covered but you could see things much more better, the grey and green spreading around had many more shades and Cumas did not have to guess where he was going, he could confirm by looking. 

More people were talking, smiling a bit, and much better shops. In the corner of his eye he saw a restaurant.

‘Civilization still stands for peace, that's good’

He was pleased by how everything was taking place. Cindy then stopped and looked at Cumas again. “You said that we were looking for a toy store, right?”

Cumas nodded, starting to remember about that guy.

‘Why was he wearing something ridiculous like that from an Rpg or something?’

Cindy saw him staring again, she giggled by where he was staring at and when he broke loose, he said sorry by just stopping and gave an excuse he was thinking. Cumas started to quickly walkt to the store. Cindy, excited by what transpired, stayed a bit behind him.

‘What a lousy excuse’ She thought gleefully, ‘it still is working on you, that's good to know.’