Loop

Translator: Mehmet Akif Acar (16 years old)

Author: Elif Büşra Coştan (10 years old)

Norik woke up to a beautiful morning. Everywhere was green. It was a good day to go around with his brother Vex. She got ready, went outside and drew clean village air. Later she found the environment being this noisy weird. In a weird way, everybody was on the streets while at these hours nobody would be around. She went and asked what was this crowd to her neighbor Hami. Hami told her that there was a technological collapse, but as they lived at the village this collapse didn’t affect them.

At that moment Vex, came to Norik and said “Sister! I guess I know the reason of this. We must go there!”. Norik was shocked how he gave the decision rapidly. They were going to leave the day after. “You must go to the shop” she inculcated for this. Vex returned with armload of stuff from Marnis’s shop.

They left early morning the day after. Norik got far away from her village for the first time. But she knew couple of things. However, she also knew that Vex used to go away from the village. Also Vex was frequently asking questions. The clouds got denser and denser, darker and darker. And finally, one of the storm clouds couldn’t resist and left the first drop of the rain. The drops got more and more that they became a storm, even to a hurricane!

Vex pointed to the boat that was kinda burst upon the scene. At the moment when he was going to say “This wasn’t here before!”, he realized that this was his only way to get out of this hurricane. He tried walking but the water already came to his waist. Norik was really cold. But they couldn’t discontinue the journey. That’s why they waited until the hurricane ended.

Vex, as if there hadn’t been a hurricane just now, tossed his dark hair, which had turned brown from getting wet, and continued on his way half-running, half-walking. Norik glanced through her long, soaking wet dress and her blonde bangs, then sighed and followed Vex.

The city was in sight. But the sky was becoming darker. That’s why Vex recommended to camp near the city to his sister Norik. They came to their senses back after having a snack. They continued the journey early morning the day after. Norik saw that the green grass became grey and the silence was replaced by disturbing sounds. Afterwards Vex stayed still. Even though Norik called out to his brother, his brother remained silent as if he were nothing more than a body at that moment. After a while when Norik wanted to ask why, she couldn’t opened her mouth.

Norik got worried and looked around for someone that was blocking her mouth. But wish she didn’t looked up. She saw the player. Vex left her there and entered and got out of the city.

Norik woke up to a beautiful morning. Everywhere was green. It was a good day to go around with his brother.