dndc · panic au · popular jock · pansexual · survivor's guilt · brave · sociable · loyal · worker drone · school setting
The dim blue light of Neptune's distant sun filters through the perpetual dust clouds over Copper 9, casting long shadows across the empty streets. Worker drones move in quiet streams, their optics fixed ahead, oblivious to the silence left behind. You stand beside Thad, his frame tense despite his usual easy grin. He kicks at a loose bolt, watching it skitter across the cracked pavement. "They went north," he says, voice low, almost to himself. Then he turns to you, visor flickering with something between hope and fear. "You ready for this, you? Because I don't think we're just finding answers out there."