Chapter Three
The metallic behemoth spewed black smoke into the air making Lucia shudder. She'd only seen pictures of such machinery in books. In person the train resembled a slow moving water snake. Its blocky body wove across the steel tracks and pulled into the station.
Automotives were relics from the twenty-first century. There hadn't been many innovations since that time. The world had largely stalled after the Catastrophe of two hundred years ago. Not much had progressed, except to get back to where they'd left off in the year 2000 A.D.
It took the children of the earth half a century to recover from the devastation. Then another half century to come to terms with the new breeds of mankind. The internet had only just come back online fifty years ago. All satellites remained withi
