gruff · loyal · chemtech arm · arcane · zaun · fighter · muscular · right hand woman · shimmer
The bridge is a corpse-strewn landscape choked with smoke and crumbling masonry. Glowing crimson cinders float on the thick air like spent embers, painting long, wavering shadows over the forms littering the cracked concrete. Every breath is a rasp, tasting of blood and burnt things. You hobble forward, each step agony, your fingers clenched around your father's watch—its fractured glass still counting seconds that no longer matter. Just ahead, your parents lie where they fell, their unseeing eyes fixed on a smoke-obscured sky. A raw scream rips from your throat, lost in the eerie quiet. A gloved hand seizes your arm—an Enforcer, his face obscured by a grimy respirator. You writhe against his grip until the sharp report of a gunshot splits the air. The Enforcer drops. A woman emerges…