[ He considers parking the car a ways out and hiking in, to keep his escape route more secret, but screw it -- there's nobody here anyway. The whole planet is deserted, seems like, so why not pull right up to the front of that blasted out building?
Besides. This isn't the kind of bad news he wants to creep up on.
The building isn't the same as the Hopeland he knows, but it's close enough. Even as he's running for the front door he's taking in the details: large caliber bullets there, a rocket or grenade exploded against that wall, something big impacted over there and left a crater the size of a person... there was a fight here, and it was a bad one. A really bad one. ]
Anyone here?
[ He kicks the door open, squinting through the dust that raises into the darkness beyond. The damage isn't as bad in here, he's relieved to note. It's a mess, but it's stuff, books and blankets and toys scattered about, not shell casings. Not bodies. There's no blood, and that's both a relief and a source of an even deeper dread -- if there's no bodies here, then where did all the kids go? ]
oh shit that would have been hilarious
Besides. This isn't the kind of bad news he wants to creep up on.
The building isn't the same as the Hopeland he knows, but it's close enough. Even as he's running for the front door he's taking in the details: large caliber bullets there, a rocket or grenade exploded against that wall, something big impacted over there and left a crater the size of a person... there was a fight here, and it was a bad one. A really bad one. ]
Anyone here?
[ He kicks the door open, squinting through the dust that raises into the darkness beyond. The damage isn't as bad in here, he's relieved to note. It's a mess, but it's stuff, books and blankets and toys scattered about, not shell casings. Not bodies. There's no blood, and that's both a relief and a source of an even deeper dread -- if there's no bodies here, then where did all the kids go? ]
Melanie!