#echo 17

Echo blinked as Whisper conveyed Mist’s ping and gasped as she sent out a return ping.

Gwen in street clothes and gloves. Stepped outside a door. Locking it with a small twist of her wrist. She froze sensing something, an energy she hadn't felt since Sol.

There were perks to being the only guardian who didn't follow every step of Eris's plan with Oryx's echo. One of them was that Echo could call and check in on Savathun and see how she was progressing in her journey from cunning to earnestness. Another was being able to call Savathun on her bullcrap and get a "favor from a friend".

That favor was finding Mist and the portal Echo needed to get to her.

Honestly, knowing Savathun, Echo was expecting to find some kind of monstrous, dystopian hellscape that would make the Hellmouth on Luna look heavenly. What she found was the complete opposite.

Blue skies, fluffy clouds, and tall skyscrapers of steel and glass gleaming on a summer's day. Lights and buildings, tiny vehicles humming down below. This wasn't a hellscape... this looked like a paradise. A golden age paradise.

Naturally, Echo swooped down on the outskirts and found a nice forested area to hide her jumpship. But even as she made her way back into the city, she couldn't believe what she was seeing. Humans! Human's everywhere! And not a wall in sight!

Unfortunately, ground level was too crowded to look around properly and too easy to get lost in. So, Echo did what hunters did best. She went somewhere high to get a bird's eye view.

"There's so many people," Echo said, gazing down from a city rooftop. "How are we going to find her in all this?'

"Well, Savathun said she was in the city," Whisper said, looking down at the streets. "And she hasn't lied to you yet."

"Yet," Echo agreed. "But she also doesn't have reason to right now. I mean, unless she wanted to keep me here too."

Whisper shook her shell. "Not likely. She's too attached to you to let anything happen to you."

"Yeah," Echo said, unconvinced. "Okay, so we can't find her by sight. Any luck on finding Sunspot or any transmitters?"

Whisper shook her shell again. "No. There's a whole bunch of weird energy signatures but nothing paracausal," she said and then stopped. "Wait, I think I found something. It's not much but I think it might be a lead."

"Well, if it's a lead, it's a lead," Echo sighed and stuffed her binoculars into her pack. "Let's go before we lose it."

After several hours of roof jumping and a few sidewalk crossing adventures, Echo found herself looking at a line of doors with a familiar yet unfamiliar figure standing before her. Red hair, familiar scars, but in clothes and style she'd never seen before.

Echo hesitated, the visor of her mask glowing dimly beneath her hood.

Echo closed the door to the new terrarium in her apartment, glad to see it finally finished. Though she hated moving her geckos from one place to the next, the terrarium at her bunker wasn't as... secure as she thought it was. She had just been thinking about new hides for her geckos when she looked up, a call coming in from the Derelict.

Echo beamed and nodded for the message to be patched through

Echo had just finished cleaning her Lunalata bow when the hunter den mother appeared. The turquoise hunter looked at Mist, then at the sword, and back with a wide grin.

"Uh, yeah!" she said enthusiastically. "Lemme put this away real quick."