#coveredxngrease

Setting: two years after Ch1 of Running Behind

   NH-01987 doesn’t know how or when he got here -- The power of wandering drove him FAR, in desperation. The last few areas he had been in, his camps hand to be given up and he had to flee.

      Hand rests upon his stomach, it making awful, fitful noises again. He hadn’t had a meal in three days and the last one? It had been a handful of edible roots. The jeans he had stolen were threadbare, but still doing their job of hiding scars. His blue shirt, tattered and too large, still hid his ports and wires from sight. His hair was currently touching his shoulders, bright blond now dulled by dust and dirt.

   It was cold, as he was quickly discovering deserts were at night. He needed shelter, but there seemed to be none in sight. He’s about to give up, curl up in the next rock collection to sleep when he sees the faintest light off to the northwest. It appeared to be a small collection of buildings and... And perhaps maybe he could hide in one for the night while everyone else was asleep so he wouldn’t risk losing function of his limbs.

      That was the last thing he needed.

   So thus, NH-01987 marched forward, a more determined strength in his step. He just had to make it there. Then he could rest and maybe check any black bags for food.

      When he gets there, twenty minutes later, he finds himself looking at a strange building. A large door that he assumed rolled upwards to allow people in, various vehicles parked both outside between the white stripes of the parking lot and some on the inside of the building.

   Slipping around to the side entrance, he tries the door to find it falls open, he wandering inside. Carefully, oh so gingerly, he clicks the door shut behind him. The warmth is noticeable. He notices now, that one of the cars has it’s door off and he goes over to it, hand touching the seat It was so soft and in the back there was one large enough that it would make due for a mattress. 

      Carefully, NH-01987 made his way into the car, squeezing himself inbetween the space of the front two seats, careful not to have his foot catch on the middle console. Once he’s in the back, he fits his frail body onto the seat, curling in on himself, telling himself he’ll only sleep a few hours, then leave.

   However, it’s the most comfortable he’s been, in FOREVER it feels like, the closest time being when he found a wonderful large patch of moss covered ground to sleep upon. Sleep is quick to claim him and for once his dreams aren’t as frightening as he’s come to expect.

      When the morning comes, he’s wakened with a start, hearing something large moving. Rising up a big on his elbow, he sees it’s the door he noted last night and a woman enters, humming and suddenly he feels FEAR as she’s heading right for the car he’s in.

LATE NIGHTS STARTERS | ACCEPTING

Prompto smiled softly. It was rare these days that the world was this quiet though. With all the daemons walking around - and there were more and more of them - it was really something. But it was his job to keep fighting to protect Noctis’ kingdom while his best friend wasn’t around, so he would do everything he could to keep the world somehow PEACEFUL, like right now. 

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     The gunslinger had arrived in Hammerhead with the four of his friends for the first time, and already he liked the place. Even if it were simply a garage, a small shop, a small diner, and a gas station. Admittedly, what he liked about it was the girl that seemed to work in the garage.

     Of course, he couldn’t really make out what she was saying when the four first met her, so he never caught her name or just about anything. He had spent most of the encounter trying to find a way so he could, at the very least, read her lips. Every time he could even see her lips, though, she was either talking too fast or he couldn’t make out her words so he was completely left in the dark. 

He was among the newest members of the group of bounty hunters, as well as a confidant of Dave’s. Though there are many times as well that he hunts these vicious creatures down free of charge. He went to clean house around the areas surrounding Hammerhead and decided to stop by to see the blonde mechanic herself before grabbing some grub at Takka’s.