Zone C -- Megacity One

[The Future Warrior]

Back out into the rain and they resumed their quickened pace of travel. Graowr was quiet, in a rare turn of events, and constantly looking around nervously. Something about this city she couldn't explain. It just didn't feel right. Somewhere in the back of her mind she knew exactly why it bothered her so much, though. She'd been in cities before. Old cities, new cities, big cities, small cities, ruined cities, rebuilding cities, destroyed cities, abandoned cities... All of them had felt lived in. As if they'd been alive, and the reason for their destruction or emptiness if they were empty could be readily explained. But this one...this one just felt dead. Like everyone in it had just vanished, left without a trace. She knew, of course, that the constant fog shrouding it, and the rain didn't do her any favors in that general impression of things, but still...

It was a spooky place for her. As tired of it as she was, she'd have almost preferred to be back at the coast, struggling through the flooding and waves.

"So..." It was the little majin who finally spoke up to break the silence again after a while. "...my name's Graowr."

There was no immediate response, which put a damper on the blue girl's spirits. But after a moment, the hooded woman volunteered what might have been her own name. "Dawn." There was no more said on that subject, as the topic immediately changed. She had drawn her tablet out of its pocket in her backpack again, stopping at an intersection in the road to check the map. "...this way should be the quickest." She gestured down the road to their right, and headed off down it, leaving Graowr to hop forward and scurry forward to catch up.

Somehow, the 'company' was managing to make it more spooky in here...

Graowr and Dawn moving from C2 to C16