Julia took a cautious look below her into the long, overgrown tunnel stretching down into the underhalls of the city. She hated the thought that she would reach the bottom and get pounced on by some creature of the forest. What had that chittering been, anyway?
With a deep breath, she looked around at the city one last time; the scale was still incredible... the towering buildings, overgrown with moss and vines stretched into the dark purple sky like ancient obelisks from a time unimaginable. She could barely bring herself to leave, looking back on her blue-green home of decades. Her throat caught painfully.
"I wish I never died. I hate the thought that I might outlast this place...(sigh) I'm a fucking coward. "
And with that, she shouldered her heavy pack and placed her foot on the first rung of the long, rusted ladder.
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An odd, thin film stretched over Aubrey's glazed, incognizant eyes.
She blinked through the numbness.
She smelled something...it was disorienting, almost sickening...
She felt her lungs heave as she rasped a breath. It was so painful, but she could barely feel it, like she was floating through her mind, but...it was really like the world was crushing in on her.
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Julia felt her feet ache...it had been a long time since she had last talked to someone. She couldn't remember anything this exciting the entire year, but still, she felt fearful. The girl had been covered in blood. Julia always felt sick around blood, and with the amount she'd lost, Julia assumed the girl wasn't going to be traveling-strong any time soon, even after her bones healed.
Julia closed her eyes and balled her fists, "I'm not going to lose control! I can't...I couldn't live with myself. "
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A Frozen Kiss
Romance(This is pretty much deprecated, take a look at Out of the Dark, its reboot/successor) It's been a long time since most ruins from the ancients were beaten to rubble and ground down to dust, but much like the people it sought to destroy, the weapon...
