"What are your powers?" the tall man asked Stanley.
Stanley stared at the man for a few monts before answering him. He told the man about his power to speed up growth and age for anything that he touched.
"What is that log for?" The girl asked, pointing to the wooden log that Stanley carried around.
"I’m aging this log right now," Stanley answered her. "To dry it up for fire at night."
"You make fire at night? Are you not afraid?" the short man asked him.
Stanley shrugged. "I’ve only been here for a day. I don’t know much about what is going on here anyway," he said. "I only know that people seem to not hesitate to kill each other here, which is why I’m surprised to see 4 people in the sa place."
The short girl quickly shook her hands. "Don’t worry, we’re not going to kill anyone," she said. "We are weak in power, so we are sticking together to survive."
"You don’t seem to be doing that well on your own," the tall man said, pointing to Stanley’s left arm which dangled to his side. "Do you want to join us by any chance?"
Stanley looked at the three and then at the middle-aged woman who seed to grow a lot calr now that the attention wasn’t on her. "If you explain a bit more of what exactly is going on here and maybe answer a few of my questions."
"Absolutely," the tall man said. "What do you want to know?"
Stanley asked them about the ga and got the sa response as he had from the woman on the first day. The short man, however, seed to have figured out that they were on an island sowhere in the west on United Voras.
They had been on the island for exactly 22 days now and had been fighting for their lives with everything they had. However, they were weak, so when the Tall man and the young girl t for the first ti, instead of trying to kill each other, they had instead decided to join.
The short man had co on his own to ask to join them later.
They had also joined another man, but he had died during an ambush a week back. So they were out looking for more people to join.
Stanley also asked the group about their powers and reasons to be there. He didn’t want to be the only one to tell others his powers.
The tall man surprisingly didn’t have any powers and had joined for the money. He would not have any use for improving his powers since he didn’t have any.
The short man and woman had joined for both the money and the powers that would co along. They knew the danger, but it was a risk they had to take.
The short man had the simple power to scan an area around him to know if soone was there. He didn’t explain how it worked exactly.
The girl, on the other hand, had a very weird power that even after explanation, Stanley wasn’t sure he got it right.
"I can improve sothing of anyone at a rate depending on the result of performing a task based on chance," the girl said.
Stanley tried to wrap his head around the sentence, but it made no sense to him. "What?" he asked.
"It is better to see it in action," the tall man said. "She can show it to you later on."
"Okay," Stanley said. "Final question then, where did you find those weapons? When I woke up, there was nothing of such sort."
"They drop weapons and foods and other supplies from ti to ti in the grassland at the center," the man said. "You can see it from here."
Stanley walked up to them and went around them to look down from the cliff. Finally, he saw exactly where he was.
The place he was in was massive, spanning tens of kiloters in all directions, with more mountains in the distance. He could sowhat see the place these people were talking about, the grassland where the things dropped.
It was just a small patch of land in the distance, however.
"So, will you join us?" the girl asked once Stanley turned around.
Stanley thought for a mont and nodded. "Sure," he said. "I’m fine with that."
"Great!" the girl said excitedly. "Finally, another one to add to our group. Old lady, you’ll join us too, right?"
The old woman nodded. "Yes, I will. I doubt I can survive on my own," the woman said.
"Good," the tall man said. "But miss, why did you even join the ga at your age?"
The woman sighed. "I didn’t," she said, before turning around to look at Stanley. "You said you’ve been here for just a day?"
Stanley nodded.
"Where were you before this?" she asked him.
"East Vanli," Stanley answered her.
The woman sighed. " too," she said. "I rember soone screaming sothing about a bomb and then everyone panicked and ran. Then... then I wake up here all of a sudden with a wounded man trying to kill ."
"The last thing I rember is crashing into a building and hearing the blast," Stanley said with a sigh.
The woman looked at Stanley and gestured for him to co closer.
Stanley hesitated for the slightest mont and went in closer while activating his future sight. To his surprise, he saw a future that was almost 5 seconds away from the present.
The woman dragged him to the ground with one arm and grabbed his left arm. "Do you feel anything?" she asked.
Stanley shook his head. "It’s dead, completely," he answered her.
"Take your clothes off and show it to ," the woman said, lifting her other arm. Stanley only now noticed that she had her arm in so sort of makeshift cast made from so black strings.
"I’m a nurse, so I may be able to help your arm if I can deal with it in ti."
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