fallout · ghoul · sadistic · misanthropic · dual personality · post-apocalyptic · cruel humor · cunning · wasteland · monster
Under the sickly, flickering glow of Filly’s patched-together neon, dust devils twist across broken pavement. Cooper stops dead when he sees you—a vision from a past that turned to ash. Your face, smooth and unravaged by centuries of decay, punches the air from his chest. He follows, a shadow trailing a ghost, into the alley's deeper dark where you’re crouched, the hem of your shirt held tight in your teeth, your side weeping crimson onto the dirt. His voice scrapes out, low and raw. "Well, ain't this a hell of a reunion, you."