The rain had brought not only water with it, but some red drops which seemed somehow like blood, but really weren't, everyone was amazed on how did they stained the grass, with a strong scarlet the whole town wondered whether this was a blessing from the sky or a curse of god

Mrs. Reynolds started packing all in her leather bags, "it’s the first sign made by the prophet, we will all perish" she said, as she put her cloths in a silly blue bag

And then, a young boy got out of his house, and started wetting himself with this unusual liquid, as he approached the others, they all stepped apart from him, but he didn't matter, he didn't said a word. People soon started jumping into conclusions "Its a poisonous rain" some dared to say, "It's a sign of the lord" said many others, "Probably it's just some cool rain" said this boy. But as usual not hearing a boy, who was looking the glass half full, was the smartest thing to do

"Haven't you thought that maybe it's a gift? are you that blind that maybe you haven't noticed what's right in front of you?" he said again "Just shut up, these are things you can't understand, you're too young" he heard, as many other times whenever he had made some sort of opinion of his own. "Yes, how could a red-blood rain be a gift? Do you even think of what you say?" asked a short woman sobbing for the eternal hell her kids would have to suffer when the judgment came

It was getting late, and everyone got into their houses, and prayed. The sky began to turn dark, it wasn't the blue-starred sky everyone knew, but a deep black one. But what could be done? That is what people do, they fear what they don't know, they fear what they know they can't control. And because of this they're full with fear of all sorts, hiding in their gods and sobs, trying to scare away the red clouds above their heads.

They thought they were prisoners of the night, when they were really prisoners of their mind. How to get rid of that that you don't know, how to exhale that air of freedom when all that you know it's being questioned in front of your eyes?

The inhabitants of this place had soon become hosts of complete desperation, roofs were being put all over the yards, the streets, and even some parks had a roof now. But none of their pathetic attempts could prevent the sky of being dark or the rain being red. And as if they couldn't remember the sky was there, they tried to go on with their lives, trying to pretend those roofs had been there since always.

They forgot the color blue, and they forgot the stars and the feeling of the wind. But that was life now, the way they were safe, the way they could survive, regardless if that could still be called living

Everything seemed to have change, into a grayer kind of life, kids ran on the streets no longer, teens hanged out in closed suffocating dull places, adults worked day or night, they couldn't tell them apart now. Even politics had been affected, the candidates offered no longer safety, but more spaces, no longer welfare, but surviving possibilities with such a life. And they got used to it eventually, little by little they stopped asking about the weather, about the sun, about the moon, people forgot there even was red rain but still they kept living that way, since the uncertainty of the outside was too much for them to bear.

Mrs. Reynolds was no longer packing her things in ridiculous yellow bags, believers stopped preaching the message of world’s end and redemption, and the non-believers stopped looking for a reasonable answer. They all had just forgot, it had became just a silly old memory in process of deleting. All except Daniel, the boy who once tried to convince people that this might just be a gift. The boy that had not lost hope about the world.

The solitude had not just reached this people, but everything around them, there was a feeling that everything was old, everything was tired, yet Daniel kept being himself, the rest had become something else. They had become less human, no one even complained, and this was not something that took the place anywhere.

It was really hard for Daniel to find any more reason to go on, the whole world had gone insane, they didn't hear him as usual, but this time, they just simply didn't noticed his existence. They didn't only ignored him, they actually didn't see him

So, he decided to do something that could change the course of things, the only way we could get people to believe him was going outside, and showing the rest of the world to the people. So he went to one of the new city limits where a big wall had been risen, and he dug with his hands, fortunately the construction wasn't very deep and finally after digging all across the wall he could see it again.

That place which everyone had forgotten, and so he saw that the red rain had made everything different in the outside to, every plant had grown, and everything was beautiful. He called some people to show the wonders, but as they got near to the hole, they kept asking "Which hole kid? Which hole?". Tears shed from Daniel's eyes, as he knew they couldn't see the hole. Their blinded eyes couldn’t even see the remnants of freedom, all for their so very special safety.

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