Chapter Forty Five: Life and Death

They have watched in horror as everyone else in that enclosure became a zombie, while the rest was starting to exhibit the characteristics of a Vampire. They can feel the aura even though they have activated the emergency partition that separated them from the contaminated portion of the enclosure not too far behind from where the original was.

"Were you scared?" a voice asked the woman next to him. He was a Member of the Governance Commission that joined the Peaceful Enclosure in Los Angeles, California.

"Me?" the woman replied, surprised with the unlikely question. She was a public school teacher back in the free world. "I have seen my husband battled leukemia in the past five years. I have seen both life and death straight in the face."

"I am George Kennel, by the way. A member of the Governance Commission. And you are . . .?"

"Joyce Tangent," she replied casually. They shook hands.

"Did you actually believe in Vampires before seeing one metamorphose right in front of us?"

"You mean real Vampires, like what became of the people from the other side of the partition? Hell, no," she replied with a smile.

Despite the seriousness of the matter, she tried to continue in a positive note.

"I encounter the notion of Vampires so many times in English literature and I have always thought of them to be a symbolic manifestation of the author's desire to critique the ways society tolerate the evil musings in defense of the degrading privilege or the glaring discrimination in someone's own person or talents, more than they are actual physical monsters to me, to be honest. Like, for example, the ways women are treated that led us all imprisoned in these enclosures."

"You are not afraid of physical monsters now that you know they actually exist?" George Kennel inquireda.

"Life and death are truly uncertain, taken altogether, that is why both of these concepts are a source of worry and anxiety. No one exactly knows what the future holds, and no one is ever certain what comes after death, or what is there beyond that moment. Uncertainty results in fear, and the physical monsters you are referring to are no stranger to the gruesome realities of life."

The Chairman of the Governance Commission smiled.

"You mean there are people who are worse than these physical monsters?" He gave a weak nod.

"Yes. Exactly what I am saying."

The Waterbred Dragons that are swimming outside the Enclosures gave out a loud cry, which is a signal that they are now feeding from a food source that they have yet to determine. This is their cue that the enclosures must be defended.

"Quickly, protect our shields!" George Kennel shouted as everybody goes to work at once. "By the way, nice meeting you, Miss Tangent. You have very interesting thoughts."

"My pleasure," she simply replied.

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