Terilkin

Chapter 1     Soot and mud splattered themselves all over Tesla's clothes as she sprinted through the warm, summer puddles, making her way to Town Square. It was early, too early for most people, but that was why she liked it. She didn't have to slow her pace, or weave in and out of the sea of people, or be forced off the road by incoming auto-bikes or coaches. And then there was the silence. Not true silence, there was always the clanking of gears and the hissing of pipes, but silence nonetheless. The air around her was free from the chatter of gossip or the honking of horns, or the screams of "Get off the road!". Old Man Max always said i

She sprinted down the hall, hot in pursuit as a familiar looking red-head rounded the corner. This was it. There was no where else to run, nowhere else to hide. Her name would at long last be cleared, and that little vixen would finally get what was coming to her. She… had her? Rounding the corner, Charlie’s heart stopped. A dead end. An empty hall. And no trace of her only hope for salvation. She had lost her. Again. The only other person there was the building’s seventy-something year old janitor, casually mopping the floors. “You didn’t happen to see my… uh... twin run by here by any chance did you?