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No More Bird

            Once the drugs and nausea wear off and I feel up to it we get our gear together and head back out through the front entrance of the apartment. We go back over to the downed drone. The one ranger is still laying with a puddle of blood around his head. I grab my rifle from the ground and, lying amongst the dust, I see my missing finger. A few drops of blood are dripped across the pavement at the open end and a bullet whole is punched through the pavement right in front of it. I bend over and pick it up with my thumb and index finger. The finger of my glove is still covering it.

Phin - “Ah Jesus…”

I decide to try and mask the situation with humour.

Phin - “Heh, I guess I won’t be flipping the bird any time soon.”

My joke doesn't do much. I groan and start to feel sick again. I flick my finger away across the parking lot.

Cristy - “Why did you do that for?”
Phin - “What? I really doubt there’s any way to get it reattached out here and there’s no point keeping it for novelty…hehe, having my own middle finger as a keepsake. Could you picture that?”

I look back to Cristy; looking slightly off-put.

Cristy - “Well, anyway. Should we try looking through this thing for anything useful like you said before?”
Phin - “Eh…Right now I’d rather just get back to the shelter as soon as possible. Let’s quickly check through these bodies to replenish our gear and get out of here as soon as possible.”
Cristy - “Y-yeah, sure.”

We each go off to each dead rangers and start sorting through their gear. The only things I take are ammo and mask filters. Once that’s out of the way, we move out of the parking lot and start north back towards the shelter.

I still can’t get over how close that was…

Taken on: February 6, 2016

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Salted

State

Nuclear

Apocalypse

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Bird « less

Sets appears in: • Salted State

Camera: Canon EOS M, f/22.0, 1.6 sec, 55mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS M
Aperture:	f/22.0
Exposure Time:	1.6
Focal Length:	55mm
ISO:	100
Exposure Bias:	-0.67 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Aperture-priority AE
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
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