𝐈𝐍𝐓. 𝐀𝐁𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐎𝐍𝐄𝐃 𝐃𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐑 — 𝐍𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐓.
#⁎ SC.⁰¹◞ ACTION! ˊˎ- : 𝙸 𝙳𝙾𝙽'𝚃 𝙺𝙽𝙾𝚆 𝙸𝙵 𝚈𝙾𝚄 𝙲𝙰𝚁𝙴 𝙰𝚃 𝙰𝙻𝙻. [⭑] @arcadeian as LUCY MACLEAN &. @nitradiate as THE GHOUL.
DISSOLVE TO:
IT HAS BEEN ANOTHER LONG DAY ON THE ROAD TO NEW VEGAS. LUCY AND THE GHOUL FOUND SHELTER FOR THE NIGHT IN AN OLD, ABANDONED DINER. THE WALLS ARE CRACKED AND LITTERED WITH BULLET HOLES, LIKE EVERYWHERE ELSE.
LUCY SHOULD BE ASLEEP; INSTEAD, SHE IS SAT UPRIGHT AND THINKING ALL OF HER THOUGHTS ALOUD TO A CAPTIVE AUDIENCE. SUNKEN, IMPASSIVE EYES STARE AT HER FROM UNDER THE BRIM OF A DIRTY COWBOY HAT.
𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒄𝒓𝒖𝒆𝒍 𝒋𝒐𝒌𝒆. the clock still ticks and the bells will toll. midnight on doomsday was merely the beginning of the end. OCTOBER 23RD, 2077 FELLED A SINGLE DOMINO IN A LONG CON, and he’s waiting for the last tile to drop. a tile, a shoe, a rug pulled out from underneath. lay waste to idioms, the ghoul bides because waiting is what’s easy. the difference between one year and two hundred is up to the rest of the world to decide. for a man once named COOPER HOWARD, it all started to look the same after a while.
“ well, sounds t’me like you was all havin’ a grand ol’ time. ” he leans back, stretching his legs flat on the faded, checkerboard linoleum and crossing them at the ankle. reminiscence is a temptation, human as any. lucy can hardly be blamed, “ i bet your daddy slept real good at night ”, but it spreads a slow rot. hank maclean is old - world think gone sour. a bygone worse than himself.
digging up the past exhumes a great many things. most are better left dead, but he’s taken a shovel to that hour - glass sand more than anyone. looking at lucy maclean, he can almost see the bottom. the ghoul’s drawl pulls thin in a long exhale, “ not too late to turn back … said you’ve got a brother? ”