The robot stopped working after Day Seventy-Six P. R. (Post-Rift). It was meant to last a lifetime - her lifetime to be exact. Com-droids used to be all the rage back when people were everywhere and nobody had to worry about being disappeared but now... now they were all gone, her family was all gone, her droid was all gone and she survived.
She remembered the others who'd survived with her a while ago. Together they did the unthinkable and found the source of the disappearances - a rift between this dimension and another. In theory everybody who hadn't died was carrying on their lives in another world and if they hadn't closed the rift she could be with them all right now.
But they had to close it, she thought grudgingly to herself as she walked beside one of the canyons it had formed as it began to engulf the world, rip it to shreds and fuel itself further from the dying embers of Earth. Selfishly she tried to reopen it again, potentially dooming the Earth just so she had enough time to get in but none of her attempts to worked.
A part of her wishes she did what Maureen had done and jumped into the rift just before it closed. Sure, she left half her right arm and leg behind when it shut on her but she was with everyone. She wasn't the last human left, wandering aimlessly and wondering when she'd run out of processed food and have to figure out how to make a life from nothing.
Gradually the others died from age, illness or infection. None of them were doctors - nobody knew anything more than basic first aid and there hadn't been enough time to find the information from the nearby libraries before nature swooped in and took them all away.
All but her and her droid.
And now just her.
She remembered the others who'd survived with her a while ago. Together they did the unthinkable and found the source of the disappearances - a rift between this dimension and another. In theory everybody who hadn't died was carrying on their lives in another world and if they hadn't closed the rift she could be with them all right now.
But they had to close it, she thought grudgingly to herself as she walked beside one of the canyons it had formed as it began to engulf the world, rip it to shreds and fuel itself further from the dying embers of Earth. Selfishly she tried to reopen it again, potentially dooming the Earth just so she had enough time to get in but none of her attempts to worked.
A part of her wishes she did what Maureen had done and jumped into the rift just before it closed. Sure, she left half her right arm and leg behind when it shut on her but she was with everyone. She wasn't the last human left, wandering aimlessly and wondering when she'd run out of processed food and have to figure out how to make a life from nothing.
Gradually the others died from age, illness or infection. None of them were doctors - nobody knew anything more than basic first aid and there hadn't been enough time to find the information from the nearby libraries before nature swooped in and took them all away.
All but her and her droid.
And now just her.
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