before the beginning
BEFORE THE BEGINNING â three sentences (or more) about something that happened before the plot of my current project
...Oh geeze what's hilarious is that the two fics I'm currently bouncing between are tied together XD The Crooked Tooth takes place hours to a day before The Sickness of a Stranger. So, before Crooked Tooth....hmmm
They had to be quiet and unfortunately for Nick, he wasn't exactly built for stealth. Echo's lips thinned as she surveyed the quarry through the scope of her rifle she lovingly named Hemlock. Nick hadn't had a chance to ask what it was in reference to, if anything, as he tried to make himself as small as possible behind their cover.
"Oh great," Echo muttered as she turned to Nick, "there's about twelve of 'em and I'm pretty damn sure a couple are walking around in power armor knock offs."
"I don't like our odds." He admitted as she handed him her gun. He leaned around their cover and took a glance around the quarry through the scope. The more he looked, the more he grimaced.
"Ah, you saw the one with the missile launcher didn't ya."
"Mhm."
"Still hating our odds?"
"Mhm."

















