Zone E -- Highlands

[Dust]

When was the last time that Dust slept? Or eaten? He could recall the bear steaks, he remembered his pit stop in the woods, but he couldn't' recall the last time he slept for a few hours.

As the amusement park fell into the background Dust compared it's skeletal remains to the Pripyat Amusement Park back in Russia, and this provoked a few thoughts.

He had never gone near the place, but the rumors were it was haunted by the souls of lost children of Russia. In reality, it was heavily radiated by some source or another. With the gates, anything was possible.

Then he thought about the most recent updates in the power ranking and curiously wondered if there was a kissing booth in the park that he could use as a gag and a way to get that much-needed kiss. It already was consuming his thoughts...

Dust shook his head, the stingy locks shifting as he did. He just needed something to put his attention to. Like Deadpool.

"Ohhh, no you don't. You can't handle this~!" The merc with the mouth said, but it was unclear as to who he was talking to. The shirtless man, the thing he was fiddling with in his hands, or the current writer.

Soul: Wha-! But I..

"Just go back to what you were doing." He waved his hand at some unseen thing and went back to playing with a 3D puzzle like thing in his hands.

Soul: Fucking.. I have to eventually write for you, you know.

Dust was mildly confused by this and looked around to see who the mystery man in the red suit might be talking to otherwise, only to feel the tug on his hand again. Tamsin.

He wanted to cry... He also wanted to pull her in and set one on her lips. He tried to clear his mind before dealing with the hardest fight he's had to go through in this whole competition. Fighting the urge to make out with a gorgeous woman. "Yes?" He forced a smile.

"You looked troubled." She had no idea. "Is there anything I can do to ensure your comfort?" SHE HAD NO IDEA WHAT SHE WAS DOING AND HE COULDN'T HANDLE IT!!

As a contractor in the past, he would have been able to fake it, do something. Of course, back then he wouldn't have dreamed of trying to fight the natural order of things. Here he was, unable to respond and barely holding himself on a leash he thought he'd never need. Then his nose caught wind of something. "Blueberry?"

"What did you say!?" Yuki heard his words and pounced. She was ready to beat the information out of him, which wasn't that far of a temptation when he pointed towards the mountains. "WHAT THE HELL!!" Erika's was like a fire that someone just sprayed liter fluid on. With more spark to her step, she leads the others into the caverns and coves of E-Zone.

Erika leads Dust, Gil, Jakpool, and Tamsin from D1 to E9