both aero and lina are sleeping side by side to each other in a half destroyed house in the ruins. there cloths are torn aero only have a thin blanket with him that can only cover a single person .
he have covered lina with this blanket .
because the temperature had gone to minus due to the nuclear winter . he himself is severing from cold . and starving from hunger he had not eaten anything from two days .
This is very harsh for a child of this age.
sometime circumstances force child to mature before time .
just like this the night had passed .
Aero awoke to the sound of wind pushing sand against his face.
Like someone is touching him with affection and telling him to wake up.
He sat up.
Little Lina was curled beside him on the ground, hugging a worn-out stuffed fox toy—
A relic from a world that no longer existed.
Aero start brushing her hair by his fingers gently.
by which Lina had woke up.
Aero smiled weakly. He tried to appear strong for her. But strength came hard in the ruins.
With a hungry stomach.
He stood and looked out the cracked window.
There was a town near the ruins in which the aristocrats live.
Aero goes to the town daily and polishes the shoes of people.
he works near the main road of the outer circle of the town.
For 0.20 ''miros'' . which is the current currency of this world.
A packet of bread cost 0.80 '' miros ''. with 5 slices of bread one slice cost 0.16 miros.
he had started to polish shoes from 3 days.
before that he was a bagger.
one day a wise old women see him in the streets and out of peaty she had bought a kit for boots polishing for him the condition of that old lady is also poor people in the town call her granny tama she had lost his husband and both sons in the war now she live alone ..
aero is very thankfull of that kind granny .
now aero earn money by hard work for his sister but his business is not running good now a days .
Aero had only encounter 2 customer In his first day.
and from two days he had no customer. because of this he only manage to earn money by which he can only feed his sister.
Lina is not Aero real sister he had found Lina in a dust bin at the town road. wrapped in a thin old blanket.
and after seeing Lina crying in the trash bin with her little face full of innocence aero decided he will adopt her and make her his sister . he pick her up and mount her to his back and carry her to his broken shelter.
And just like that Lina become the reason for aero to live .
now aero pack his stuff for shoes polishing. and secured his sister on his back and started to walk toward the town .
after 20 minutes aero reached the town with his ting legs and his sister on his back .
he set up his stall near the road and feed his sister the last peace of bread that he had .