Strange figures. Vague shapes that seemed to stay just far enough away so as to appear as nothing more than silhouettes in the fog. Karasu and Cloris could both see them. These figures stayed within the pair's peripheral vision, never staying long enough to allow the humans a good look at them. Whenever they were spotted the figures quickly darted out of view. Whether that involved slipping behind a building or scurrying away into the heavy blizzard's blinding curtains, the two humans wouldn't be able to see these figures long enough to make out any specific details. If for whatever reason they tried to give chase they would find nothing, only footprints. Sometimes very normal looking footprints, sometimes those same perfect circular holes pressed into the snow instead.
As if that wasn't already inducing paranoia enough as-is, they would hear laughter echoing through the empty streets. It was impossible to tell the location of the laughter as it bounced across the concrete walls of Copper-9's abandoned buildings. The only thing they could piece together about the laugh is that it sounded almost as if...It was from a young girl. Once the pair arrived at the corpse spire the laughter fell silent and the figures that were stalking them were nowhere to be seen. It was almost as if something was simply toying with them and had grown bored of it.
Ray found himself laughing with V as they walked out of the life support terminal, even more so towards her response to his dumb joke. He almost failed to notice the disassembly drone start to reach towards his hand, though once she hesitated he was able to catch it out of his peripheral vision. It caused him some amount of hesitation as well. His face was pretty red from this...The engineer was thankful that right now nobody could see his face from behind the helmet he was wearing.
With a deep breath he finally reached out and took hold of V's hand. It was...A strange sensation. Everything about the texture of what he was holding onto told his mind that it was robotic, and yet the disassembly drone's hand had a pleasant warmth to it not unlike a human's hand would have. He felt his heart beating a little faster as he held on tightly. His mind was so focused on this that when they walked up to see a clearly upset Uzi, Ray found himself standing there staring at her silently for several seconds before he finally "woke up" and realized he should probably say something.
"Heeyyy...Uzi. How's the...uh...Whole "Standing around waiting" situation going?"
That was when he was pulled out of his stupor by taking notice of something - or rather - the lack of something. The engineer blinked in confusion.
"Where are the other two?"
He didn't have to wait long for an answer to that question; J called out in response to Uzi's statement, clearly pleased with herself, but also giving away her location. He let go of V's hand, peering into the apartment to see the other two were busy cleaning it up.
"Oh, not a bad start. Although it looks like it's gonna need some repairs...I guess I can take a look since we're gonna be waiting for the other two anyway."
He stepped inside, giving the place a look over. Sure it was clean now, but it was still basically unusable. The kitchen sink's faucet was completely detached, the sink basin was rusted, and the handles wouldn't budge an inch due to ALSO being rusted. The bathroom wasn't much better considering some crazy drone had apparently chosen to use the toilet as a chair; and had completely broken the bolts holding it down as a result of trying to move it somewhere else. Evidently the culprit had given up after breaking the bolts and just dropped it, shattering parts of the ceramic.
The bedroom was the only survivor of this chaotic whirlwind of destruction, and even that hadn't gotten away totally free; the mattress on the bottom bunk of the bunk bed was ripped apart like someone was practicing using a chainsaw on it. The engineer could only whistle at all of this.
"Uzi wasn't wrong about this being unlivable...Sigh. Still, I can fix it, I just might have to pilfer replacements from the other apartments."
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