The refugee, a hideous unpolished excuse of a beginning of a short story
By Archlurps on DeviantART
If you walk the vast dry plains between the cities, you'll probably doubt if anything could ever survive there. You'd be easily excused, the barren, empty lands have little to survive on, and you're not likely to see what few things roam there. Still sometimes you may hear a rustle, a pneumatic puff, a clank or something else that you'd think a mechanically animated hunk of metal would make. Then you've only got your luck to trust, since you've probably come by a frenzy. Regardless of the design, original purpose or age of it, alone and unequ