PLOT DROP ONE: THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ANNIE ADLER.
October 5th, 2120.
The sun falls, as it does, but the crowd doesn’t seem to want to dwindle. After all, once this day is over, everyone knows they will have to return to their normal, everyday routine. The children are still running around, balloons in hand (though many of them have now disappeared into the sky), and the rest of the citizens seem to be crowded around the drinking and eating area.
Then, a scream.
The music stops, and everyone turns towards the sound, only to see Mrs. Adler hold a tiny red shoe with two shaking hands. Annie! She shouts into the crowd -- Annie is gone, someone please help -
The Watchers quickly come to assist her - or perhaps to tell her to be quiet - but she is soon carried away by them, away from the crowd and out of the festival. But the damage has already been done; the crowd stands in awkward silence, barely whispering amongst themselves until the Watchers go up to the stage to talk to the Fleeting Sunsets and they quickly begin to play again.
I’m sure she’s just wandering about, you hear someone say. The others agree, and the crowd continues to dance and sing along, as though nothing ever happened at all.
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