Thread: A Promise is a Promise (Atroxa & OstrichFromJoust)

She was still trying to process everything that had happened, and was still happening, but it was hard to do with everything that was going on around her. It was fairly chaotic in the holding docks, where refugees were being kept unless they either wanted to leave the Citadel or could prove that they actually had somewhere to go, and that they weren't going to just go and become vagrants on the streets. It had some people pretty disgruntled to be kept here, they felt as if the Council was turning their backs on them, but none of them could offer better solutions either. All this was well over Tamsin's head though, she was only eighteen, and she'd only left the small farming colony where her family lived a few times. And that had only been to visit family on Earth and Terra Nova, and they all lived in relatively small communities as well. She wasn't worldly or brave, she was just a kid, and she felt overwhelmed and scared. Still though, the blonde youth had a small smile fixed on her face, refusing to let it all get to her, she was even comforting one of the women and her small child from her settlement who had had to leave her husband behind. She was grateful that there were a few familiar faces here among the sea of refugees. It had all happened so suddenly, she'd been sleeping when the settlement's alarms had started blaring, and she and her parents had grabbed what they could and headed for the town center. The colony was under attack, by the Reapers. They had all heard the reports, seen the news footage, the monstrous ships came, and then everything went black. Earth had already fallen, she and her parents had sat and worried over her grandparents, hoping they would be alright, and now, her own world was taken. There had only been so many shuttles, their settlement was small and out of the way, no one had ever thought that they would need to do an immediate and total evacuation, so many families had been split up. The younger children had priority, them and their mothers, then progressively older. By the time Tamsin had been picked, there hadn't been enough room for either of her parents. She was considered old enough to go on her own, and after some convincing from her parents, she'd gotten on the shuttle. They promised they would follow her, they'd be here soon. Her parents had never broken a promise to her in her life, so Tamsin believed them. She had to. She didn't want to believe that she might be stuck here by herself. She had tried to contact her relatives on Terra Nova, but it was too soon to have gotten word back, so in the mean time, the girl explored. She'd only seen a handful of aliens in her life, a couple of salarians, some asari, and a volus once, but that was about it. Now she was surrounded by them. The docks had segregated themselves, each race sticking to it's own, though there was some mixing here and there, but everyone was on edge, they were keeping to what was familiar for some form of comfort. Tamsin though, wandered about, keeping well into the open, she was young and inexperienced, but she wasn't stupid. Her parents had impressed on her very firmly that people were not all as friendly and well-meaning as those in her small community. By the end of the day, they had still not heard back from home, and no more shuttles bearing people from her town had arrived. She held out hope though, and stood near one of the dock control desks, watching the comings and goings of the people around her curiously.