Red Rain: Chapters 1-3 Reading
Ste Holland for Cain Dolan
Medium-high voice, kind of nerdy, maybe a little whiny. Macie’s childhood best friend, a socially awkward, nerdy boy who loves aliens, conspiracy theories and the unexplained. Cain is an insomniac who practically lives off of coffee and energy drinks. He manages to stay cheerful and excitable, though when he crashes he crashes hard. He loves technology and tries to invent new gadgets and gizmos, which are often useless. He’s got a big crush on Ren, who he met through Macie and is now good friends with. He’s smart and caring, and has a big imagination which can sometimes lead him to jump to conclusions. He’s good at analyzing data and detail, but he lets himself be influenced by others pretty easily.
(excited, a bit defensive) “Wait-- oh, heck, I forgot the light’s out on your street, just-- shine a flashlight outside! I swear I’m not crazy!”
[MACIE: “If you start feeding us some birdbrained theories you found on reddit, I will kick you to mars so you can live happily with your aliens.”] “Unfortunately, I would likely asphyxiate before contact with any extraterrestrial life could be achieved. There’s probably no life on mars anyway, or at least no sentient lifeforms that would be capable of intelligent communication--”
(Explaining his research) “As you can see-- or, well, Ren kind of can’t I guess, but anyway-- the rain was a similar shade of red to the storm we experienced last night. Dust was ruled out in this case, as well, and you’ll never believed what actually turned out to be the cause.” [MACIE: “Are you trying to sound like a clickbait article?”] “Kind of. Um, anyway, it was discovered that the red rain in Kerala was caused by a meteorite that had crashed nearby earlier, and sent particles into the air apparently. And now, here’s the really interesting part...”
