"The weather's not looking so hot." I mumble as I look at the sky while sitting on the humvee's hood. Trees zipping past us as Rika kept driving towards our home base.
"Well, not a bad thing. If it rains we can test the rain barrels. Also, I'd say the dark sky would help with the smoke from the corpse pire. But I see no smoke coming off from deeper inside the forest to begin with..." I add as I lower my head and lift my mask to rub my eyes, then let off a big yawn.
" I'm finally getting tired now that I'm relaxing huh?" I close my eyes and take a deep breath.
"You know, it's funny. But what I really look forward to right now is a very, very hot bath, and something frozen to drink. Guess that's how that one blue uniform-wearing vault boi felt after drinking a cold beer. Having left one certain vault and spending god knows how long in the wastes of the Commonwealth drinking piss warm beers." I chuckle as I turn to look toward the sky.
"Wonder if the peeps back at the base are done since I see no smoke." I sigh as I close my eyes again. The sound of shifting gears and engine roar overtaking whatever forest ambient noise you would expect to hear.
"Naier. We are nearly there. How are you holding up there?" And my radio speaks up.
"I'm fine enough to nearly fall asleep." I answer with a small chuckle.
"You can sleep at the safe house, don't go snoozing off and falling off the roof." The radio responds.
"I know I know, don't worry. Besides, we still got some stuff to do before we can go snoozing off." I respond.
"And I don't mean taking a bath. With the weather looking all rainy. We better set them barrels pronto. And if we have any waterproof sheets to make some makeshift funnels for em, even better. " I respond.
"Already thinking ahead huh? Not a bad idea. Saeko, do you know of we have anything waterproof we can use?" The radio responds.
"Waterproof fabric? The best I can think of is any of the beach equipment we might have in the house." A distant voice, Saeko, responds.
(Beach equipment, here? In the middle of the forest? Guess for swimming in the river? Or they helicoptered them selves to private beaches.)
"And umbrellas." I add.
"Yea, that too." Saeko answers back.
"I think I saw some in the house now that I think about it." Another voice, Saya's, responds
"Well, we could set that up first. Because the walls might need some, skill leveling." I continue as I glance at the packed crates.
"Reducing the underground water usage to just drinking it will probably be enough for the rainfall to replenish the used supply. And if not, to at least make it last much longer compared to using it for everything." I add.
"Is it safe to wash with rain water though?" Saeko asks.
"Well, we will have to boil it first, and we do have a heavy-duty filtering machine to pass it through, though its intended use was for personal, not for a whole household. We also can check if the taps in the house have any filters we can use. But yea. I would not risk drinking it as long as we got pre-outbreak proofed water. But it should be good for a bath, watering stuff and washing. Plus we would have to boil the water anyway. Or do you want to take a cold bath?" I respond.
"Hmm, you do have a point." Saeko answers back.
And soon after, we reached the zig-zag uphill road. In other words, we were almost back.
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Summoned
फैनफिक्शनOC that has seen the anime and is thrown into the Hotd world. What else to say. Probable cringe-fest? No lemon trees?
