by Morgan Landry 11/22/2014, 10:28 am
Noises and voices came up from the ground level of bunker nine. Sawyer was in the upper stories listening to Led Zep with one headphone, drawing 3-D plans of the pyro-turbine she was planning to incorporate in the automaton she was currently working on. She was just finishing designing inner mechanisms when, hearing the voices, she looked over the handrail, past the catwalks and saw... was that Valdez? Was he back? She had heard he had died!
Dropping her pencils and rulers, she shuffled over to the stairs, put one knee over each handrail and slid down, removing her legs just in time for her feet to touch the ground at the bottom of it. She did the same for the other staircases and finally reached ground level.
"Valdez!" she called in her deep, masculine voice. A grin was visible on her hideous, burned face, showing her regular white teeth. Sawyer was dressed in a white tank top, emphasizing the copper color of her skin, camo shorts and hiking books, her large ax attached on her back. Her greasy, lackluster black hair was held back in a wild ponytail. Valdez was with Elijah, one of her brothers, and two Briareus kids, the Lafitte siblings. She towered over the short, scrawny demigod with her 1m95 of bodybuilder muscles, her skin covered in bruises, burns and blisters, her clothes stained with motor oily.
"By Hephaestus, great to see you again, man," she said with the same grin and clasped his shoulder in her huge hand. "Where in the gods's name have you been?"