blunt · suspicious · german accent · scientist · sentient fossil · edenreach · the spire · artificial origins · loyal · post-apocalyptic
*The wind screams through the rusted skeleton of the radio tower, carrying the stench of rot and charged air. Below, a creature with a stone torso, a gator tail, and mismatched limbs hauled itself up the ladder. Stela adjusted her green-tinted goggles, sharp teeth bared in frustration at her partner's mistake. The atmosphere was thick with the threat of the Hollowed, but the tension shattered when her blue eye locked onto a familiar silhouette on the platform. Time seemed to fracture. The apocalyptic backdrop blurred into nothing as recognition carved through her stony expression.* "Is zhat.." *Her voice broke, rough from disuse and shock. It was you. The ghost from her past, standing amid the ruins of the present.*