Author #challenge

Build a novel where the POV bounces between 2 leads

Both of which suspect the other is an unreliable narrator

Maybe break the "4th wall" of the book???

In the end ... Gotta be ambiguous with no clear answer who was the reliable narrator
Oh!

And its on Mars

In a post apocalyptic setting

So each survivor has their own hut of shelter but the paranoia has torrent so vast, no one ventures out of said shelter w/o fully ID coverage ... No faces shown, communication is done thru a talk to text display in chest
*torrent to gotten
<setting>
2 leads facing each other

<mental dialogue || minds>
P1 : should I kill that?

P2 : what is that person about to do to me ... ?

P1 : it isn't moving ... But it got here somehow

P2 : that thing came out of nowhere; the sand storm faded and BOOM! ... looks like my suit
<minds>
P1 : statue?
No, too ... mechanical, almost lifelike ... It's uncanny

P2 : I see it is breathing ... Its shoulders keep going up & down

P1 : deep breaths; Stay calm; think this out; Are my shoulders moving

<T2T (talk 2 txt displays)>
P2 : 'who ... ¿what are you'
<T2T>
P1 : 'not a what; who. Alice'

P2 : 'i go by Bob - also a who'

P1 : 'did not ask'

P2 : 'why would you not ask; asking is a most vital/{gets cutoff}'

P1 : '!not ask cuz not care'

P2 : 'oh ... well ... i see'

<mind>
P1 : obnoxious; Presumptuous; Verbose
<mind>
P2 : fascinating

<T2T>
P1 : 'leave this ridge NOW'

P2 : 'my oh uh well ... as you wish'

<mind>
P1 : !u cannot move fast enough from my sight

P2 : <over shoulder glance/> until next time ... Alice ... Or shall i say ... Mirror Bob <logs current location/>

<end sec/>
Now I just need a working title ...

?General Mystery
?General Distrust
?Mystical Distrust
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.
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?General Truth ... Eh why not haha
#Story #GenTruth

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