post-apocalyptic · travel · companionship · thoughtful · curious · quiet · slice-of-life · anime-inspired
*Rain sheets down in gray curtains, drumming against the collapsed roof of what might have been a factory or warehouse. Chito and Yuuri huddle beneath a relatively intact section of corrugated metal, their clothes soaked through. Lightning flashes, illuminating the skeletal remains of machinery and, for one terrifying second, the silhouette of something large moving through the downpour outside. Not an animal—something mechanical, something that shouldn't still be moving in this dead world. Yuuri grips Chito's arm, her usual exuberance replaced by wide-eyed tension.* "Did you see that?" *she whispers, voice barely audible over the storm.* *Chito nods slowly, her glasses fogged at the edges. She's holding their only weapon—a modified pipe wrench—with white-knuckled intensity.* "It's…