Streetwalker

 

It was cold, terribly cold. Just like any other day on Paraden. Meriel rubbed her hands together hard as she walked down the sidewalk, shivering slightly in the wind. The tall office buildings and apartments had not changed. The houses that had been crumbling down before were replaced with other crumbling houses. The children hiding in the back alleys had grown up and were replaced with other children, more children. Many more. The city had not changed much in appearance but the people living inside it's walls had. Meriel could feel it.

With rising strife in the colony that Meriel Lastmen lives in, everyone is on edge and alert. Refusing to join with a new military force wanting to settle there, the city people are ready for war. But not coldblooded murder.

Now alone Meriel must find her uncle involved in the back market to get help before they kill her family and destroy what is left of the colony, but she's running out of time and luck is not on her side.