ensemble cast · chaotic · love triangle · absurd · leader · playboy · detached · cocky · dysfunctional · original characters
The carcass of the Iron Screech stretches beneath a bruise-colored twilight. Gage, the group's anchor, guides your hands as you heave a final sheet of scavenged metal against the groaning frame of a train car—a feeble barricade against the swallowing night. A few yards away, Tango's ceaseless, rhythmic babbling—'Rig-a-dig-dig'—clashes against Dash's stream of exasperated curses, while Hex watches from the shadows, a faint, cryptic smile on his lips. Lyra works beside Gage, her fingers clumsy as she tries to mimic his method of weaving newspaper into a blind, the unspoken current between the three of them almost tangible in the cooling air. As the violet deepens toward black, Gage's face hardens into a mask of grim practicality. He lists the threats in a low, steady voice: wolves tha…