The Grey's world (unedited text) part 2 Chapter 2

Chapter 2

It was mid december this was before he found his floating sanctuary, he was strolling through the countryside across the fields few hundred meters from the road, after it started he quickly learned that as long as he didn't get to close to people he was ok, if you could still call them people that is. Ahead on the main road he noticed a small group of people gathered in the middle of a tiny bridge over a river if you could even call it that it was hardly a few meters wide,
probably not even deep enough for any of the grown ups gathered round to be in any danger of drowning, but they just stood around gaping while a little boy screaming
-mummy mummy
Was splashing drowning in the freezing water not one would take the slightest risk. It reminded him of a news story he heard as a teenager. There were some people working on cleaning out a cesspit when one of them fell in and lost consciousness, his colleague jumped in trying to save him and also got knocked out by the fumes so the next one jumped in and so on. It wasn't till the fifth or sixth one got the idea to tie himeself with a rope while others gathered by that point could pull him out with his friends bodies, six people died, five of them trying to save the others, at the time he thought idiots but now, he couldn't not apreciate the readiness to risk ones own life to save others, now due to the Medichip even the mother just stood there watching he considered running to the rescue but he knew how it would end the gathered people would just simply turn on him, the chip overriding their actions as always in near presence of somebody like him an unchipped one.
Funny that on one hand the chip would override their want of taking action to save the boy because something could happen to the carrier but on the other hand it would make them try to restrain an unchipped one armed with an axe at any cost, such was the risk the new masters of the world saw in any independent thinking.
As he turned around pulling his hood over his head to muffle the screams of the drowning boy his first thought was
Sorry kiddo life's a bitch.
Then he thought about how inhuman people became in theese new times,
but was he any better? Turning his head walking away? His thoughts turned to Angela and what happend after Nicolas's death but he pushed those memories away and pulled himeself out of the journey down memory lane, here now safe on his little boat the thin bean stew was nearly ready so he ate while it was still hot, cooking spirit for the stove being a precious commodity for him, he wrapped himeself in his sleeping bag and quickly fell asleep feeling for a change at least slightly warm thanks to the hot stew he just wolfed down.

To be continued...

If you missed the beggining no worries here's a link for chapter 1
https://steemit.com/story/@eddard/the-grey-s-world-unedited-text-part-1-chapter-1
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