I look out the window and sigh. All I can see is clouds, all the way to the horizon. Same as yesterday, and the day before that, and the day before that. I’d bet one hundred dollars it’ll be the same tomorrow. Nothing interesting ever happens around here. At least, not that us citizens ever know about.

My father used to tell me stories about life down on the ground, and I always thought that’s all they were—stories. Everyone knows that there is no more life on the ground. The earth was almost destroyed by the nuclear fallout from WWVI, hundreds of years ago. That’s what they taught us in school, and that’s what I always believed. Until a few weeks ago, when I saw something down there.

No, not something—some one.