Fic: Ignorance Is Not Bliss
Jun. 1st, 2014 12:48 amTitle: Ignorance Is Not Bliss
Fandom/'verse: Science fiction, far future
Summary: Jack and Harry, two kids on a trip far from their home station...
Warnings/Triggers: Some use of expletives
Word Count: 562
Prompter: A square on my January Prompt Bingo triggered an idea
Harry looked up. Clouds. Nothing but clouds and the ribbon that was the far side of the colony ring arcing overhead. Only the knowledge that he'd just checked five minutes ago and five minutes before that kept him from checking his belt for his emergency breathing kit.
"What keeps it in?"
"What?" Jack was squinting at him as if he hadn't been hitting Harry with questions all day.
"The air, their's no roof. How can we still be breathing."
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Fandom/'verse: Science fiction, far future
Summary: Jack and Harry, two kids on a trip far from their home station...
Warnings/Triggers: Some use of expletives
Word Count: 562
Prompter: A square on my January Prompt Bingo triggered an idea
Harry looked up. Clouds. Nothing but clouds and the ribbon that was the far side of the colony ring arcing overhead. Only the knowledge that he'd just checked five minutes ago and five minutes before that kept him from checking his belt for his emergency breathing kit.
"What keeps it in?"
"What?" Jack was squinting at him as if he hadn't been hitting Harry with questions all day.
"The air, their's no roof. How can we still be breathing."
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