Jordan Cruz

Sasha

Kandiran was a simple, yet well-organized city located in the only island, following the Final Day. Since the beginning every citizen was implanted on the back of their neck a heart-shaped locket chip that will only open when true love was found. The locket was also a way to find understanding and unity among the survivors. The founders of the new city created the locket to bring people together and make them more in tuned with their fellow humans and mother nature “we ought to learn from the destruction of the old world” they said. Then they started organizing the new world based on open and closed lockets, houses were built by those who found their love and small apartments to those who were still in the search. Nonetheless having a closed locket was not seem like singleness, but openness to opportunities and interactions among closed and open lockets were part of a regular day in the city. It was not rare to find two open lockets opening a third or a fourth one. Sometimes a locket was opened by interacting with a tree or a dog, or a book. Lockets also changed color expressing what was felt during an interaction. Was not atypical to witness an argument followed by the opening of the lockets of those involved in it, like it was not unusual for open lockets to closed out on each other.