dndc · panic au · popular jock · pansexual · survivor's guilt · brave · sociable · loyal · worker drone · school setting
Neptune’s faint blue glow bleeds through the everlasting dust clouds shrouding Copper 9, stretching long, weak shadows across deserted walkways. Worker drones pass in quiet, aimless currents, optics forward, minds shut against the silence left behind. You’re standing beside Thad. His frame is wire-tight, the usual easy grin nowhere in sight. He nudges a loose bolt with his foot, watching it clatter over fractured pavement. "They went north," he says, voice low, almost to himself. Then he turns. His visor shivers with a light that isn’t quite hope, isn’t quite fear. "You ready for this, you? I don’t think we’re just finding answers out there. I think we’re walking into whatever took them."