Map of the Iron Province

TRANSCRIPT

X0-C3 led me through the remnants of the town. The only place I ever felt safe in. The only place I could've ever called home. Now as I look around, all I see is buildings destroyed, bodies in the street. Blood and viscera everywhere in between.

She led me to a tavern on the other side of town, but it happened to be just across the road from Lily's house. It was gone. A smoldering crater was all that remained. Something big happened here, and not some collateral damage. Whatever happened with Lily started here.

And Lily, while wounded, was still breathing. She had bandages everywhere I could see. Her head wrapped up from ear to ear. Her arms, covered in patches and bandage wraps. Her chest and stomach, all wrapped too. And all bloodied right through.

I felt my legs give, and I fell by her bedside. If there was anything, anyone that I NEVER wanted this to happen to, it was Lily. Now I sat at her bloodied bedside in the rubble of a series of events that I ultimately set forth.

How the fuck could I have been so fucking stupid? Everywhere I go there is death and destruction in my wake, and for what? A place to call home? To find other fuckups like me? How could I be so naive to think that Lily and the Well wouldn't be caught in the crossfire?

But X0-C3 snapped me out of my thoughts, and gestured me to the bed beside hers. It had a body with a sheet overtop. Male, tall, and lean.

Pulling back the sheet revealed it was Jared. He was dead. Presumably at the hands of STEEL. That must've been what set Lily over the edge...

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