Utterly Mad

     L brought her a pair of loose fitting red swim shorts with a drawstring in the front and a likewise loose fitting cotton T-shirt. The sheet she’d been provided with made for ample cover while she put them on. “Where am I?” She asked. It wasn’t the first time she’d asked that question, though she didn’t really remember the real first time, and it wouldn’t be the last either.

     “Told you before girly, north of nowhere. We should be getting back to pricetown in a day or two.” L explained, only to be confused when Catnip just cocked her head and asked “Pricetown?”

“Er, yeah, Pricetown. Everybody knows Pricetown. Where have you been living Girly? Under a rock?”

“No. Dervish said it was uh… New ing-land?”

     L thought Catnip was messing with her, even began to laugh a little until she saw how earnest the rat mutant was. “Your not serious? No one comes from the other side. The rockies are too dangerous, the other side is full of toxic smoke and giant monsters.” It was Catnip’s turn to be confused.

     “Nuh uh, it’s better than being…” She gestured towards the open sky, “In this. How can you live when it’s so hot all the time?” If it was a joke, L didn’t think it was funny. “You’re either a crazy or a liar girly. If you are telling the truth, then how’d you get here? You’re sun addled.”

     She told her story up to the point when she attacked the bishop, leaving out a few details here and there, and L listened closely. Sometime during Catnip’s oration, Kyle approached and listened in. When she’d finished, L said gently “Definetly sun sickness. Few days in the desert without water will do that to you.”

Catnip wanted to argue, wanted to insist, but the ugly mutant interrupted. “L said you claim to be a mechanic? If that’s true, I could use your help with the truck.”