 Inhabitants of the city, writhing in ecstasy.
Logan and Jessica slip out the secret door that leads from the orgy room to the hidden, back, areas of the city.
Before the city was shut out from the world, it used this area to breed food from the sea. ______________________________________________ |
As Logan and
Jessica make their escape, one of their first stops is a hiding place where the rebels
will show them how to get out of the city, on the route to sanctuary. To get to the rebel
hiding place, Jessica takes Logan to a secret door, which is located in a place called The
Love Shop, where the inhabitants of the city gather for sex orgies, as they breathe in the
vapors of a mind-altering drug. Once this would have seemed to Logan as a place of
amusement. Now, on the run, and with the knowledge that the city is founded on mass
murder, the orgy room seems like a place of madness. As the two make their way through it,
nude bodies writhe in ecstasy and besiege them on all sides, inviting them to lose
themselves in pleasure. Escaping this mass of humanity, the two go out the secret door into a forgotten part of the city, that is dark and unkempt, behind the high-tech walls. Suddenly, the mall-like world Logan has known all his life, with its plaza-like spaces and cultivated plantings, disappears. In its place, the pair find themselves traveling down a long flight of metal stairs and a dimly lit hall, surrounded by bare walls and junk. In quick order, they survive an encounter with suspicious rebels; they get directions from the rebels on how to get out (head even further down into lost areas of the city); and they escape invading sandmen. They then continue their descent, winding their way through the labyrinthine bowels of the city. A key, shaped like an Egyptian Ankh, gets them through a door that blocks their route, as the other sandman pursues from behind. Soon they pass giant aquatic tanks, green with algae, that were apparently once used to breed food from the sea.
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