(This is just a memory that Rory is having of her time right after the meteor impact, not really relevant.)
Once.. There was a girl. Her name was unremarkable. Her body was unremarkable. Her mind was unremarkable. She was an unimportant being. So, she was content with her life. She worked her hardest on the farm her family owned in Oregon. It was a simple life, but she was content.
Until one day, she saw it. It was like a star. It was covered in flames, and it looked like it was big enough to be larger than an entire country. It crashed somewhere very away...
It was like the Big Bang.
In mere moments, everything around her was vaporized. No, atomized. But she wasn't. Everything around her was lost to destruction but.. The girl survived. Again, she was unremarkable, so how she survived perplexed her. But it didn't matter. What only mattered was...
There was nothing to hope for.
She began walking. And walking. And walking. She didn't stop to see the destruction. She didn't stop to see the savagery. She didn't stop to worry about whether or not she was hungry or thirsty. She just continued to walk. As she walked, she asked herself..
What am I doing?
She realized it quickly. No, she always knew it. She was born as an unremarkable being. She had no talent. So she had always contemplated. Life itself was just a series of pointless motions. You lived, and you died. What came in-between was simply the work of chance. For a girl as talentless as her, this only meant..
Death.
In the day, she walked. In the night, she slept. Because in her dreams, she wasn't unremarkable. She was strong there. She was smart there. People liked her there. But reality reflects into dreams. And for somebody who'd already lost everything... Not even the dreams could stop her from seeing the problems she faced as mere..
Noise. It's noisy.
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Rory slowly got up from her bed, noticing the plate of still hot breakfast Gabriel had prepared for her. She picked it up and scarfed it down quickly, sighing after doing so. She turned to the door as it was knocked on, swiftly opening it.
"Hello?"