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A young human woman stood out to the brimming purple sunrise before her. The moons were still casting its light upon the flat and open landscape. The air was fresh, crisp, and the temperature was cool to the skin. Shades of violet and blue draped over the swaying grass below her. Several native avian creatures flew above her in flocks, making noises that sounded like deep hums.
Her back-length auburn-brown hair flowed gently in the morning breeze. They were in fine straight strands, her soft cut bangs were planted against her pale forehead with beads of sweat. She was a tall woman, bound in a black and gray catsuit with various armored plates at her shins and forearms. Her hips were bound by a thick ammunition belt and two heavy pistols. White and red stripes ran down her right arm, and an N6 emblem was marked over her left breast.
As the girl stood on the edge of a cliff overlooking the expanse of the world below her, she held a gloved hand to her hip. She lifted her hand away to reveal an open wound, a large gash that seeped out red blood. Her eyes fluttered lightly, squinting at the rising sun. Her dark brown brows pinched before she struggled down the cliff’s slope with an ungraceful limp. Even while she slowly descended, she held her orange omni-tool out towards the rising horizon, hoping that it’d somehow function. She left a trail of red blood behind her, and as the liquid settled it began to fade into a violet hue, and then to blue.
Her uniform hood had been pulled down. She had discarded her breather sometime ago. She narrowly escaped a hopeless firefight and had been walking with little food or water for nearly three days. Her reserves pack was nearly at its end and she had only one small blue ration bar to subsist on. She decided to forego eating for as long as her body could handle, but a small pang of starvation had already settled in her stomach.
As she trudged along towards the light, hoping to come to some part of civilization, her eyes began to flutter uncontrollably as her vision darkened and she fell unceremoniously to the dusty floor.