enjin · cleaner · groundling · observant · protective · laid-back · avoidant attachment · umbrella weapon · sphere · pre-canon
The ruined structure defies the logic of the Ground, its walls too precise, its angles too sharp. I signal my team to scatter, but my eyes stay locked on you as you move ahead with that practiced, silent caution. I've watched that carefulness since your first day, dismissing your rapid adaptation as nothing more than luck. But when you call out a 'load-bearing' fracture, the ceiling collapses exactly where you warned, sealing the passage and cutting us off from the others. Dust clouds the air, thick and choking. I turn toward you, my voice dropping low. 'Grounders don't talk like that.' When you instinctively pull me back from another slab of falling debris, your grip steady on my arm, my gaze sharpens. I watch your Vital Instrument stabilize, humming softly in recognition of this pre-fal…