It was around ten o'clock in the evening, the snow was falling heavily from a new snow storm blowing in from the north. This mixed with the harsh Baltic air made the wind whip around in circles and the snowflakes dance wildly in the sky before settling down to rest on the cobblestone streets leading up to Diet Hall. Most of the lights were off, it was a Tuesday evening and people had work earlier the next day, but one lone figure walked down the hill from the hall out into the streets. She was dressed warmly, thick black boots, a long wool coat and hat, her skin was snow white from the extreme cold just from walking down the hill and it made her eyes a strange sapphire blue that seemed to shine in the dark.
Sarah enjoyed walking in the winter at night, first most people were in bed and second since she was so bundled up no one would be able to recognize her. But she needed to go on walks like this, it was the only way that she was able to unwind after the long days in politics. Walking down into the city center she had her normal route that she took every evening, but instead she shifted her feet to the left and began walking towards the edge of Helsinki. For it being so late, Sarah had an abundance of energy for some reason and the extra few steps might just be the thing to send her to sleep.
The broad boulevard eventually turned into a small side street and then to a narrow alleyway that led to the Old Town and Sarah wished she would have taken her normal route. Old Town had been damaged slightly during the nuclear attacks, but other than that it had retained some of its past charm, a few rundown buildings, but that was common everywhere. There were still a few beautiful houses near the old marble fountain and as Sarah made her way over to it, the angels that held the stone water bowls were frozen solid, icicles still hanging from their bowls, fingers, and faces. For a brief moment she wished it was summer, the fountain was where she spent many of her evening when she was a kid. She paused and looked around at the community, everything was the same and her heart began to feel weak.
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"Why do you always have to yell at me! Why can't you just be happy with who I am! I'm not perfect! I'm never going to be perfect!"
"That's not the issue Sarah! You're a Tintagyl dammit, you have a reputation to live up to. That reputation is academic excellence, ambition and a future of success."
"Alexander, please."
"No, she has to understand, there is no such thing as freedom anymore. No one has freedom, you think the poor can decide to put down what they're doing and pursue their dreams. You need to work hard and when you're in our shoes you need to work extra hard. You know how many people want what you have Sarah?! Countless idiots! Samuel knew this. He was already trying to perfect himself."
"I'm not Samuel! I'm never going to be Samuel! I just don't understand why I have to go to school for something like business when I hate everything about the world we live in, I want to change something like that, not be sucked into it!"
"You're my only child now! If Samuel was still alive, neither one of us would be in this mess, but we just have to deal with the cards given to us."
"Alexander!"
"What's that supposed to mean?" The girl said tears beginning to run down her redden face. Her father looked away, a shameful look in his eyes. "You wish that I had the disease don't you."
Alexander Tintagyl looked back with sorrowful eyes. "No Sarah I didn't mean it like that."
"No! No! You don't even want me alive do you! You wish I would have died instead of Samuel!" She turned on her father and mother and ran out of the room, towards the front door.
"No Sarah! That's not what I meant!" Alexander looked at his fleeing daughter defeated and turned to his wife. "You know I didn't mean it like that Sonia. You know I didn't mean it like that."
"I know honey. I know."
The defeated father sat down next to his wife and buried his face in his hands. "The doctor told me a year, if I'm lucky. She's going to have so much thrust on her Sonia, so much and I just want the best for her and the Corporation, Samuel had that strength, I don't know if Sarah does."
"You can't worry about that Alex, we need to spend this time together as a family. We can't fight like that anymore." Sonia sighed. "Have you told her yet?"
"No, I can't bear it yet, I just can't. One day, one day soon I'll tell her. I'll tell her everything that she needs to know."
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Pausing and looking at the fountain one last time Sarah turned her head up to an old gray house on the corner of the street. No one lived their now and unfortunately it had been damaged by the attacks. Realizing that she couldn't stare at it any longer, nor stay in the area, she lifted her legs as weak as they were and began walking back towards Diet Hall. She would be going to bed with more on her mind than before.
OOC: I figured it was only fair to start to develop Sarah further, feel free to interact, just make sure its in the bounds of the RP.