Inktober D-4: Radio

The variety of trash that came scattered about their current area varied so much. Still no houses though, even after who knows how many hours both had seemed to have walked. Luckily they had managed to find something edible such as crumbs from the abandoned food packages they had passed by. They were surviving at least, and that was what mattered in those moments. But they couldn’t help but wonder what had happened to the rest of their class, and the school population they were with just before they were chased down by the giant ant. They were clueless but definitely hopeful that they would be seeing other human beings soon.

It was nearing sun down again yet still no trace of civilization. They had opted to set camp out soon but beyond a few more blades of giant grass, a radio came into view. It was one of those small battery operated ones, though it could hardly be called small in this case. Hopefully it still worked

“Frankie, let’s try to see if this thing still works” With a nod, frankie went to check the back for a switch of sorts while Mike tried to climb to the top to check the control panel and dial it seemed to have

“I found the switch” Frankie excitedly claimed “Maybe there would be some kind of news broadcast up “ Static boomed over the speakers as soon as the switch was flipped. Mike had the greater task of looking for stations which would still be up despite the disaster that seemed to have befallen them. After a few tries, and eventually with the help of Frankie, nothing came up except this station that played pop music they used to listen to before. Perhaps the DJ put everything on a loop before they got shrunk too. Anyways, having music around never hurt while they set up their camp. And maybe later on, they could create their own dance party after all the work needed to be done.

As the boys set up their camp, a figure emerged from the grass. It was a girl from their class. What was she doing alone? Another one soon appeared, then another one.

“We heard the music. We thought there would be people around” The idea probably never occurred to them but it was fortunate they kept the radio on. Hopefully by the time the battery ran out, there would be enough a crowd to make exploration a lot easier. They would need to stay there for a while.

“We thought you guys may have been eaten by the giant bugs around here. Glad to see some people after a while of just us two” Frankie was first to approach as Mike had gone off again to get more materials to set up more tents. Much work would need to be done if the plan of exploration was changed to temporarily settling in to find more people. Well, it wouldn’t be that bad, more people, more chances of survival and more hands to help them around. Or at least until before they need to move around again.

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Kinda getting irritated with the storybook style illustration ;;-;;

Cute that my bf decided to join inktober though because he knows how important this is to me now

Such a cutie >w<

Still kinda wishing my sister would let me use MY laptop again just so i can fix the links

The only wip i have because i was in a video chat UwU