1: Burden Part I

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From 2019.12.10 (Season of Dawn) to 2021.07.06 (Season of the Splicer)

Name

  • 1: Burden Part I

Description

  • A lone engine rails against the faux tranquility of the Dead Zone, keeping a teetering chassis of metal just within the terminator line of brimming twilight. The carrier dives through needled mountains that perforate low-hanging clouds, cutting them into sheets of stratus and vapor that slide like flattening suds across a dusk ocean. A closed-net comms line crackles.
  • Marin Oru:
  • Most of the canopy is too thick to land. We'll be exposed in the clearing.
  • Saint-14:
  • She will be there. Final transmission lists six refugees; peddled for Ether.
  • Geppetto:
  • And upward of thirty Fallen.
  • Marin Oru:
  • In that case, I'm glad we brought the machine gun.
  • Saint-14:
  • This Warlord who deals with them… we will have to pay them a visit.
  • Marin Oru:
  • Focus on the task at hand. Thirty seconds.
  • Geppetto:
  • Ms. Lucine's Ghost, Ghost, reports no Pikes. However, there is a covered pit in the camp that drew curiosity. They are going radio silent.
  • Marin Oru:
  • Something better left alone, I'm sure.
  • They plunge into shadow, between peaks, cloud-wake trails as they slow to land. The carrier whirrs and rattles. Engines cut and cool. Titan and Warlock disembark. They wait.
  • "Well done, Geppetto." Marin Uro's voice emanates from his helmet, visor stiffly fixed on the tree line.
  • Geppetto blinks code into the gloaming horizon, awaiting response. "Thank you, Brother Marin. It was my first time."
  • Marin is a statue.
  • Saint opens the carrier's cargo hold and turns to Marin. "She will be here."
  • Geppetto blinks. "No response from Ms. Lucine."
  • "All this worry—it is over nothing. Tyv will laugh with us tomorrow." Saint pats Marin's back.
  • "Tomorrow." Marin's eyes are fixed on the darkening tree line.
  • "Yes. Tomorrow. The day after, again after that, and more until a day without armor."
  • "That's a pleasant thought." Marin straightens, peering at a point in the depth.
  • A Light blinks from the tree line.
  • "Brother Saint. I have located them."