These combat frames were designed for environments that most people could barely understand. Arctic cold. Blistered deserts. Radioactive wastes. Some, even could fight in the vacuum of space, and return from orbit unassisted. Now however, they were underground. “Quite a sight.” someone murmured. Tair most likely. Medet didn’t respond, but he had to agree. This place was all but forgotten, but it was still certainly impressive. Giant columns rose into the dark around them, larger even than the towering height of their frames. It reminded him of a cathedral, though it lacked pews, or windows, and was several hundred feet underground. There was still something almost reverent about it, a weight to the air that hinted at how these columns bore the weight of millions of people. They were under the city now. “We could set some demolition packs,” Oraz suggested. “Put a few on the columns, just in case they pursue us?” “No. Body count has already gone high enough.” Medet said. “We have
SERAPH-01: Countdown Initiated by Clown0fWar, literature
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SERAPH-01: Countdown Initiated
Down a clinical white-painted hallway, a young woman in a white lab coat grumbled to herself as she pushed a heavy cart along the hallway. She was petite and around seventeen years old, with emerald-green eyes and the pale complexion of a person that spends long periods of time indoors. Hanging from a lanyard around her neck was an ID badge, with her picture and the words "Elsa Williams, WORK EXP" written on it.
Looking at her, there wasn't much for the eye to catch. She seemed, for all accounts, to be perfectly ordinary; just another studious teenager on work experience.
"I can't go back to yesterday- because I was a different person then."
-Lewis Carroll
The storm was getting worse, and I still had no shelter. My fingers and toes were numb despite the thick, heavily insulated boots and mittens I wore. The wind tugged at the hood of my parka and found every gap in my clothing, chilling whatever skin it touched almost instantly. The beam of my headlamp revealed nothing but a cone of swirling snow and fog. I had lost my bearings a long time ago; now I was stumbling blindly through the blizzard. Anyone can tell you that the first rule to follow when you get lost is to stay put, but at the moment staying put w