Beyond The Fallen Sky

Alfred and I are lounging, sitting comfortably on top of our gas station roof, with beer in hands and rocking chair, we gazed into the beautiful aurora in the night sky. It was a beautiful and relaxing views, to calm my mind, at times, this world is just breathtakingly beautiful.

"[Your leg bone healed in an awkward manner thanks to no splint or even a little correction being use in early treatment…hence it became malformed as the bone heals…]". (Alfred)

"Hmmm…to correct them, I need to have it broken again and then correctly aligned the bones… Sigh~ ".

"[ That is correct…but to do that, we need at least one competent doctor to do so …Which in these wasteland …I doubt even a single one existed … from my daily observation from the space …everyone single town and city that I have observed, all of them were simply have a quack doctor, the kind that learned medical through living in a wasteland …]". (Alfred)

"I know, right? …they don't even know to disinfect wounds before treating them, they just wrapped a dirty bandaged around a wound and asked for Coins ….".

Fitting to a destroyed world, even the medical technology and knowledge has already gone from this world. The 'doctor' that existed nowadays are all just a self-proclaimed professional, a quack that knows nothing about medical knowledge whatsoever. They treat a minor injury, and then the people seek him/her a few times, and with that the entire town just put a label of doctor on him/her.

With that acknowledgement from the settlement, him/her can now practice medicine and charged people with a fee, that are often excessive. That is why, I cannot just trust any doctor to help me to straighten my leg.

"Hmmm…. what if you…become a doctor, Alfred?".

"[Well, theoretically, I can ….as an Artificial Intelligence that are capable of learning anything …. I can become the world top surgeon in just few seconds…but.... oh…wait a minute...]". (Alfred)

"That's right …. If a Military Automaton exist …. this means, that there is also another type of Automaton as well…".

"[Wait ...… Sir, it does ….I just now, dive into the database, and I can confirmed that there are thousands of different type of Automaton existed in this world….and among them, is an Automaton called 'Bot Doctor' a specialized Automaton that can performed multitude array of medical treatment, from a simple first aid to neurosurgery…and then there is one called 'Nurse Bot' an Automaton fully specialized to become an expert medical nurse….with these 2 Automaton, if we were to have them….we would effectively capable of establishing a working Modern day hospital…this is the safest way and the best way to correct your leg, sir]". (Alfred)

"…Alright, now things are becoming more promising …. Alfred, we need those 2 Automaton immediately …Tomorrow we will began bartering trades, right?".

"[ Yes, we will, sir …do you want me to secretly put a priority to procuring Automaton?... I could do that, sir…]". (Alfred)

"Yes, put priority on Automaton and everything that is related to them …but only take those that can be repaired and the usable parts…the broken ones just refused them outright …. also make sure to take note, to not be so desperate for it …we need the people to see us, just having a mere glancing interest on Automaton…".

"[Of course, Sir ….at the same time, I will also be searching for the 2 Automaton via satellite…with the number of hospitals and clinic in these part of the world…it should be obtainable…]". (Alfred)

"Sure, do that as well…. the sooner we get those Automaton…the better….by the way…perhaps…we might be able to use Automaton for all sort of things….".

Automaton is just a robot that were made to lighten the human work, a reliable and dependable work force that would assist human daily life, making it easier and more comfortable. From a simple butler Automaton, all the way to construction Automaton, they all have specialized profession and are very excel at what they are built to do. This topic, just ignited my hobbyist and collector passion, according to Alfred there are thousands of Automaton type, in this world, and surely, to me, it would fun to collect them all.

Which I am intended to do so, the topic of our conversation covers a lot of things, and at 3AM, I head back down to get some shut eyes. Comes the morning, our routines start again, Natsha woke up at 5am as always, preparing our breakfast, and I woke up at 5:40 am and joined her for our breakfast together. This has become a routine for the both of us, Naturally, with our intense night together, the topic of our discussion does covers that as well, being a decent woman, as always, she would blush at the topic, but stayed on it.

"Station Ail and Wail, had offered us a deal …. they wanted us to supply them our Sourdough Bread and Mineral Waters, weekly ….".

"Oh really? …. that's great, Honey …. So, how much are the deal worth?". (Natasha)

"10 crates of Sourdough bread and 100 liters of Mineral waters, priced at 1.2 Coins for both of them… so that was 420 Coins a week, and 1680 Coins a Month, they demand that we obliged the contract for 3 straight months….so in total, it was 5040 coins …".

Natasha eyes, widen at the amount of the deal that the town offered us, the contract was simple, just delivering the product to the town and that was it, simple. Sure, we managed to gain 5 000 coins in five days, but to get that amount of money, we had to work the stall for at minimum of 5 hours continued hard labor.

"We should accept the deal, Honey…that was a confirmed money, and it was a lot… also, since we are planned to move around our business as well…. might as well left our marks there …. with our product sold in Station Ail and Wail, the people there would surely remember our Azra Family Co, name even after we left the town…". (Natasha)

"Sure, I'll sign the contract today… by the way, how did you know that we will be moving about, a lot?".

"You said, that we need to spread our name, right? …to do that, we had to set up stall as we did at Station Ail and wail on many other places as well…Right?". (Natasha)

"you're correct…we do have to move around a lot…. but that is just an initial phase…. but after we gotten famous enough…we can just focus on building our very own town…and let the customers come to us…".

Time will come when the people would seek after our service and product and when that time comes, all that we had to do is create a settlement that is big enough to just open shop and living comfortably. I am not really an adventurous person, I loved to stay in a comfort of my own home with the people that I loved. To me, that is already a big enough dream for me to strive to.

"But, Honey …you do remember your promise, right?". (Natasha)

"About, adding more family members?".

"Yes… I would only feel safe to build a town, if we got enough trustworthy people around us…". (Natasha)

She was adamant about this, so all that I could do, is simply nodded at her reminder. She wanted me to marry another woman, to increased our family, and I promised her for it, naturally she as the First wife has an opinion on who would become her sisters-wife, and for some reason she was proud of that power.

"By the way, Honey… I was hoping that you could, take Selene as your second wife…". (Natasha)