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iwanttosettheworldonfire) wrote2015-04-30 10:45 pm
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Megaton Dreaming
The sun cut through the damaged atmosphere over the subtropical desert with all its usual relentlessness, pouring through windows that had last seen glass two hundred years ago (if that) and shabby curtains to fall precisely into everyone's eyes as they slept. The room was full of battered, dried out mementos of another age, mostly toys and books, all cracked and crumbling. A slight humming came from somewhere underneath them, almost drowned out by a staticky radio playing Cole Porter. The air was still and heavy, touched with a scorched, chemical smell that hung over everything, a strangely inorganic smell that seemed to overpower any hint of living things. No hint of anything green, of sweat, even of decay, just that smoky, biting trace in the air. Someone with an unnaturally heavy step was moving in the house, and the sheet metal that made up most of the place softly squealed its protests. The very air hummed with a strange energy, like it was about to storm, though it was so dry it didn't seem like rain was the remotest possibility.
In other words, home. Indrani shifted in bed, head pillowed on her copy of The Wasteland Survival Guide, two ancient stuffed bears and Dogmeat curled beside her, and was perfectly content for a moment. Then she realized it was months, maybe a year, since she'd woken in her own bed, and she hauled herself upright, looking around hurriedly.
In other words, home. Indrani shifted in bed, head pillowed on her copy of The Wasteland Survival Guide, two ancient stuffed bears and Dogmeat curled beside her, and was perfectly content for a moment. Then she realized it was months, maybe a year, since she'd woken in her own bed, and she hauled herself upright, looking around hurriedly.
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That's when he realized they were in the same bed, and it was an unfamiliar bed. He moved the arm a hair to peer past it in her direction, confused.
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He pauses, glances over at Indrani, and adds, "Not that I'm complainin' about that, or anything. Home wasn't all that special."
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"Yes, madam?" The voice from somewhere down the hall was a little tinny and atonal, but for some reason had a heavy but very vaguely British accent.
"What's the date?"
"August 16, 2277."
"Thanks. Is that Fawkes downstairs?"
"Yes, madam."
She turned back to Todd. "Alright, that's... Basically when I left." She poked at her nose absently, broken on Verdana and still a bit smashed.
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"Uh, who's Wadsworth? And Fawkes? And d'you think the Things came with us?" Because there's no mention of giant rat-hyena-monsters "downstairs", either.
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Or the Things. He'd be happy with just those, really.
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"What are these?" he asked in a deep, thunderous voice that made the floor rattle a little.
"Weird, but pretty cute. Don't mind us, having a weird morning. Did you drink all my Nuka-cola again?"
"Your body is not as radiation-resistant as mine."
"So what I'm getting is yeah, you definitely drank my Nuka-cola."
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"You hungry?" she asked Todd, finally taking the few steps that led to the kitchen, which was in the same room as everything else but around a bit of a corner. The open plan would have been a lovely design had it not been utterly dilapidated and built out of old airplanes.
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He slid off One's back to land amidst Three, Four, and Five, and then they all piled up on him. He wound up buried under three andrewsarchus cubs almost immediately.
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wow I have no idea how I left this for this long :< so sorry
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tag of lateness :D