Forgiveness / Part I

Project:

«FORGIVENESS»

Category:

Art

Story

Year:

2022

This is the first part of my personal short illustrated story about the consequences of a nuclear war that destroyed humanity and the «Forgiveness» team dealing with the situation.
This time the idea was to make something quick and simple to describe vibe and the overall look and feel. The story itself is something quite dark, but it gets brighter at the very end.

We flew to them later, after a while. There was nothing left that could destroy the rest - only skeletons, metal structures, mixed with concrete. Like a frozen monument to their own stupidity, evenly wrapped in ashes.

From the window, I looked at Coil's drone, which stood five meters from mine, at the "zero point" where it all began. For hundreds of kilometers around this pit there was nothing but dusty stones.

Trees with dry leaves, like burnt paper, they would have crumbled from the wind, but there was no air.

Cities presented a particularly depressing spectacle. Collapsed facades, debris and fittings, shiny tempered glass gems sprinkled with radioactive powder on top.

The missions of the first years - six, ten ships each - have long passed. Thousands of hours of pointless searching. Searchlights roamed at night, and during the day we redrawn the streets, lining up maps with markers of the least destruction.

One could just as well describe cracks and veins in marble sculpture: exhaustive and completely useless information.

It took us more than two years to fully ascertain the absence of residential shelters. Seven bunkers with a probability of about a thousandth of a percent could be inhabited, but the spectrometers were silent.

Point, date, readings. Illusions evaporated, emotions faded.
Point, date, readings.

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