Let's be war buddies...

[initiates]

Date & Time: 18th, beginning at 2100 hours, through to the 20th.
Location: All around Exsilium.
Characters: Everyone!
Summary: The United Earth decides Exsilium had obviously not learned its lesson back in October, and does another round of humble-making bombing for those impertinent exiles. OOC info can be found here.
Warnings: Violence, death, general gloom and doom.

The warning had gone out approximately two hours before the bombing began, broadcast to any available receptor on the island: UE aggressions incoming, bombs expected; please proceed to Catacombs immediately. It repeats over and over, right up until the first bomb, aimed at the Hold itself, silences the signal.

The air is thick with smoke and worse. Every one to two hours another bomb shakes the island. Buildings crumble and shatter, but the focus is on the Hold and the native hospital. Initiative employees, some sick as anyone else, are steadfast in their escorting natives and transports alike into the underground catacombs. For two days the bombs continue ceaselessly, dropped by their cloaked and invisible carriers overhead.

The United Earth is nothing if not thorough.

Comments

[cowardwithoutfear]

[Aidan nods.]

Everyone has. But that' really rare. As for worse realities, no reason to think about that right now.

[oncearanger]

Yeah. Between 'alive' and 'not alive'...I've been on both sides, and I know what I choose.

[Billy slumps, lifting a hand to stifle a yawn.]

[cowardwithoutfear]

[Aidan smirks.]

Sleepy?

[oncearanger]

I don't stop working out there until I can't take anymore. So...yeah. I've been winding down.

[He tips his head up and smiles a little awkwardly.]

But if you're staying up a while, I'll move.

[cowardwithoutfear]

[Aidan yawns.]

Naw, I'm pretty beat myself. And I should probably sleep since the light here is worse than normal.

[He then gives Billy a stern look.]

You get all the food and water. I won't take no for an answer.

[oncearanger]

Understood.

[Billy nods, awkwardly trying to get comfortable. He figures he's probably staying.]

May I borrow you as a pillow, or...?

[cowardwithoutfear]

[Aidan nods.]

That was the plan. Besides, you're a way better blanket than nothing.

[He then bunches up his cloak and scarf into a makeshift pillow and lays down. It actually looks pretty comfortable all things considered. It's pretty clear this is not the first time he's done that.]

[oncearanger]

[Billy waits for Aidan to settle and then climbs up, folding his arms over Aidan's chest and using that for a pillow with his jacket loosely thrown over them. It's not the most comfortable way to sleep, but at least it's warm.]

Good night. Sweet dreams, I hope.