Rivet City
Apr. 26th, 2009 12:14 pmThe door opens onto an afternoon of graying sky and greyer cityscape. Megaton and its buildings of metal were one thing; this is the ruins of DC proper, all tumbled-down concrete and metal rusted beyond repair. Here and there the occasional wall still stands, or rebar protrudes from a pile of rubble. Underfoot are the remains of what was once a street, but it's shattered more or less beyond recognition.
"According to my Pip-Boy map, we don't have much farther to go," Ellen says. "The river's up ahead, and then we just follow it to the boat."
"According to my Pip-Boy map, we don't have much farther to go," Ellen says. "The river's up ahead, and then we just follow it to the boat."
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Date: 2009-04-26 10:48 pm (UTC)"That should simplify things a bit," Annabelle replies with a grin.
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Date: 2009-04-26 11:08 pm (UTC)"I don't think I've seen you with that helmet before, did you pick it up in Megaton?"
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Date: 2009-04-26 11:29 pm (UTC)Up ahead, if one listens carefully, the sound of water lapping quietly at a rocky shore can be heard.
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Date: 2009-04-27 12:57 am (UTC)Her voice catches in her throat; she's glanced upstream and spotted the battered but still apparently intact dome of the Jefferson Memorial on an islet near the far shore of the river.
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Date: 2009-04-27 01:26 am (UTC)One line by Thomas Wolfe comes to mind, and Annabelle whispers, "O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back again."
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Date: 2009-04-27 02:14 am (UTC)She shakes her head at the blotchy, pocked dome ringed in rubble and fence and wire, and nods upstream. "We should keep moving. I don't think I want to see what's happened inside."
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Date: 2009-04-27 03:28 am (UTC)"If this is the way Harith travels, I'm kind of impressed," she notes. "How he gets that brahmin of his through here is beyond me."
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Date: 2009-04-27 03:42 am (UTC)There are a few dead grey stumps of what were once trees growing out of the riverbank here. Ellen very studiously does not look at them at all.
Up ahead, a short flight of stairs- still mostly intact- leads to a raised plaza that must've been part of some government building's riverfront real estate once. The crashed remains of lamp-posts lie among broken benches, and a rusted bit of metal and plastic that once was a payphone can be seen attached to each. (The careful observer will note that the phones had dials, once, not touchpads or buttons.) Ellen keeps moving, pausing only to eye the downed red-and-white form of a Nuka-Cola machine thoughtfully.
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Date: 2009-04-27 04:02 am (UTC)Annabelle gives little notice to the rubble, other than noting it as obstacles to be avoided. Thinking too much on what the rubble is and what it's presence means could reduce even the strongest soul to tears.
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Date: 2009-04-27 04:09 am (UTC)Ellen freezes, turning enough to let one 'ear' of the helmet point in that direction. Then she nods towards the columns' shadows and makes a 'scoot over' gesture in silence.
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