Editing Covenant:RickyHawkins (section)

== What Happened ==

One of the Indentured Chosen (the citizens of Covenant) – Richard Hawkins – disappeared into the [[Covenant:StripMine|Strip Mine]] on Tuesday night, June 11th.  Ricky had, for some time, wanted to go into the mine.  The dare his friends made was just the excuse he was looking for.  Ricky was seen as a bit of a trouble-maker in town.  He could often be found at or near the scene of various vandalism, pranks, and rough-housing, as a young man is expected to commit.  After all, he was only 16.  Despite his regular truancy and no-goodnik status, he was beloved by many and was a whiz at science: small mechanics and electronics and such.

Ricky wasn't an anarchist or in any way interested in disproving the all-pervasive belief that Covenant is the last and only town on Earth.  He's just rebelious in that misdirected teenager sort of way.  The worst thing he ever did to anyone was ruining Mrs. Weaver's mailbox.  Going into the mine wasn't an act of rebellion against the beliefs of the townsfolk.  Rather, it was the act of an overly curious boy who wanted to know what was beyond the barriers and gates.