Renegades: SF

Two souls, lost kids, pretending they were renegades riding the trains with the soldiers traveling from their homes to volunteer with the opposite side. Sometimes they glimpsed trains going back home, with soldiers traveling from over there to fight on their side. It was fine, mostly. The soldiers laughed and called the kids brave ones and shared their tinned fish or the fresh-baked bread from home that wouldn't last, anyway, so why shouldn't they all share it together. It felt like a party, a little, like a celebration even though they'd all read the newspaper reports of the deaths and they'd seen the photographs of piles of corpses. It was a war worth fighting, after all, for the most basic of reasons, and none of these soldiers would die, not one, they would all come back covered in glory. The program promised that.


Inspiration: "Renegades" song
Story potential: High potential
Notes: I ... really like the idea that this is the build-up to some kind of cyborg volunteer program, and the kids get swept in too. (Young teenagers, boy and girl, brother and sister? No love interest.)