Romeo and Juliet on Mars?

Funny, because I didn’t think of R&J when I wrote it – more like Berlin Wall meets triumphant heroine. Thanks for commenting and rating!

I liked the gender-role switching. Had a very tragic, sad feel to it, which worked nicely for the subject matter.
In that first paragraph, did you mean they were beating him ‘into’ chains, or maybe they were beating him ‘with’ chains?

Definitely with! Thank you, THX.

I see the R &J vibe too and I like that she is “saving” him. I think it might be cool if the references to geography were simply “North” and “South” and then add the Martian element in the last part. Might be a nice surprise!