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Acione returned early and came in another back enterance and walked right by Roxy. "Are you ok?" Acoine said not remembering her name.

"Huh?" Roxy wiped her eyes with the sleeve of her hoodie. "Oh... I dunno. I just ripped this story off the wire about 20 minutes ago:"



Roxy cleared her voice. As she remembered the bombings she'd heard this morning, things started to make more sense. "That was your unit this morning, wasn't it Fogo? You know perfectly well what Luke 23:24 is. Why would you let them print that?"

Roxy stood up. By this time she was extremely upset. She pointed at Acione. "Why do we bother with this anymore? Any day now, he and his guys are going to bust down that door, take us outside, shoot us, and put it on the front page. I just don't think I know why we do this anymore. We can't hold out forever.

When Mia heard Roxy and Acione's...discussion, her head snapped up. She stood up and walked into the other room. "Roxy, are you saying that we can't trust Acione?" She could barely be herd over the music blaring around. "Jesse! Turn the music down please!"

"While those thought may cross our minds, we need to ignore them. We do this because we believe it is right. Sure, I think that sometimes. But there's no turning back now. We cannot change what has happened, and we can never go back into regular society." Mia said with finality, surprised at her own strength.

Ruby had gone into the "Kitchen" area of the ARMs to see what they had, and what they didn't. She looked around for a while, and finally just sat on the floor and stared at nothing in particular.

[lol, you're right.]

"Which means we need to remain Christian no matter what. We may be the only ones left, which is why we must remain strong. We are the only ones who can change things. Even if it is hopeless, we need to try." Mia said passionately, once again surprised at her boldness. "So..um...yeah...that's just what I think..." she said, suddenly reverting to her normal, shy self.

Ruby got up and went outside. She hadn't been listening to anything going on, she was in her own world. She began walking aimlessly around the deserted city, careful of course, but aimless. She knew the old city pretty well, and went into a building she had wanted to for a while. There wasn't much there, some debris and such, but she made note of that to herself and left, so she could come back later. She began walking agian.

((Man, you guys are quick! I go spend the night at someone's house and boom! two pages! and regarding your comment about me being the mom, text, I would gladly take on the role. my sister actually calls me mom sometimes because I act so motherly.))

"Listen," Azalia said to Roxy. "Don't let the devil talk you out of this. When we die, we will be going to a much better place than any on this earth. If I weren't doing this, I would be living in torment. I could never just sit back and watch all these people deny the truth, especially if they're killing the truth-tellers. Don't you see? The news in that paper is a dark cloud with a silver lining. Yes, all these people died, that's a very dark cloud, but the silver lining is that the people who don't know Christ will read it and say, 'Why on earth would these people be willing to risk their lives for this christianity?' and perhaps they will see it as something worth looking at, and they will see all that is plainly clear to us." She bit her lip in thought. "I'm going to go spray paint the actual verse of Luke 23:24 for all to see. Because it's definately not about us killing anyone and their family." She left the room to get the bible her mother had given her long ago, and a can of spray paint. When she returned to the room, she said, "I'll be back soon. You kids behave now." And left. (( mrgreen ))