Almost a century ago, we thrived.
United under divine and sovereign among us, we sprouted into a powerful kingdom stretching to every corner of the dream realm. Our fire goddess forged us into nation powerful enough to break the world in twain. Into war we were marched, and we besieged the corrupt god of dreams at her heel.
Our goddess had fallen, and we were smothered by her ashes. Her remains burned our world asunder, and buried our cities and castles, every cache of humanity, under acrid soil.
A few of us fled into the earths innards. About a thousand are left after the golden age of ascended. Here, scuttled and shivering in underground tunnels, we live on.
We have a few photos left of this facility. Back when its walls were still breathing air. It was a large office building for a company named Horton Co., with an archaic underground laboratory and a few awakened pods. Now, after the lost war, it is buried deep underground, entrenched with a few layers of concrete and signal dampening-material.
Leftover are offices, many shelters, quite a large dining area, and a nice space for activities in the late parking space. We dug out a portion of the soil around it for agriculture and farming.
We use the facility to incubate new awakened soldiers, as well as a general homely abode. There is currently 63 of us living here, counting the farm animals.
Personally, I have missed my chance to see the sun by about a 60 years. Being 32. I don't really know what it was like living up there. I was assigned to this facility when I was 15, from a larger hub. I made my way here in about a month, guided through large, empty malls, buried and dug out roads, and massive office halls, by awakened soldiers. Most of the journey was spent hiding from the residents of those spaces.
I have been fixing electrical devices and machinery for nearly 18 years now, watching kids and men come and go. They like to keep us spread and moving, keeping our numbers low in any given facility, lowering casualties were anything to sniff us out. I've taught almost a hundred children and adults how to fix, build, and destroy devices we use to incubate the awakened.
And now, I am about to enter one.