A lone figure emerged from the clingy mist. Whisking back her murky yellow hair, she pushed up her sleeves and shoved onwards, through the continual fog. Mud was spattered up her trainers, trailing up her combats, a few specks over her long sleeved shirt. Her grassy green eyes surveyed the ruined buildings, merely a pile of rubble, same as the rest. Glass littered the once thriving city, shimmering half heartedly in the breaking sun.
A second form stepped out beside his companion, awkwardly holding his palm to block the light. After the torched swamp, even the reflection of his own optics off the airborne particles was blinding. He shimmered brightly as he blew the junge off himself, stopping as the girl snapped wearily at him about needing the energy.
They had been travelling nonstop for thirteen days, hounded all the while by... well... they couldn't quite say. Just who or what was following them? The tension in the air was thick with the sense of a great army, marching through the land, no force able to stop its destruction...
Panting, the girl sat sank down on a ruined curb, her robotic friend sliding down beside her. She gazed at him with a look of dulled hope. The machine stared back, before lokking up and back down once more, attempting to copy her wheezing, dimming his eyes and slumping his shoulders, as she had. Giving him a playful shove, she laughed, knowing she had to keep not just hers but both their spirits up in this undeniably hopeless situation.
Not that there was a way out of it...
A deep thudding, and the echoing richochet of laser-fire rang out from the rear. Breaking into a run, the pair leapt over the shattered stones and sprinted exhaustedly into the cloak of cloud.
No-matter where they went, they could never find shelter, it seemed...