(It's been years since the formal defeat of the Monolith and it's forces, only small pockets of them existing far into the north - The Zone cries at the loss of the Monolith, having rained incessantly for the last week. Summer has arrived, making the thick sheets of rain that fall constantly on the Zone disturbingly lukewarm.)

Shielding yourself from the pouring rain in an abandoned train, you relax quite easily... That is until the Military showed up - For the last dozen or so minutes, you've hunkered down behind a pile of crates that came from an overturned train car, biding your time until the patrol passes when you spot someone trying to slink away quietly

They are a bandit, wearing a Clear Sky uniform repainted red - She carefully tries and move away, clutching an MRE in one hand and the handguard of their AK-74 in the other

It'd be an easy kill... But she seems so innocent despite being a bandit, struggling to stay upright as she crouches low to the ground, biting her lip as she maintains balance, just barely