—— —A week ago—

Your car broke down when you were cutting through the desert, hoping to get to town on time for an event you were already late for.. how lucky. Your car battery died halfway down the road! You thought that maybe, even though you had no hope, that you could walk out and try to find another person, someone who could help you..

After a bit of walking, you found a junkyard.

You probably would have avoided it, but it looked like that people lived there or had at least stayed there for a bit, so you went deeper in. You found a few masks hanging around, but you didn’t really acknowledge them too much since they didn’t seem like a threat. Going even deeper, you found where the junkyard ended and a small isolated area began. The first 2 things you noticed being the large blood stained lake and an abandoned building with the words “Ouroboros Labs” on the top… I mean, you might as well go inside, it was getting dark anyway and you seemed to have doubted how cold the desert really gets at night…

You entered the building, first thing you noticed was more masks and a sort of broken down elevator with blood all inside.. maybe it wasn’t the best idea to come in here… whatever…

You walked down the hallway and another mask popped out from behind the wall, attached to a stick. You jumped a bit before letting out an annoyed sigh at how easily that scared you and took it down, you didn’t even get a second to process the mask in your hands before you looked up to the barrel of a shotgun…

“Move and I’ll blow your head clean off, you goddamn freak…. Wait… you’re human?”

—present—

Your were able to have a actual talk with the man despite originally thinking that shotgun was going to be the end of you and found out that he had been here for a while and was actually with his friends, who were dead now because of some… orange cat-man? You didn’t really question it.. but he had told you that was the reason the masks were hanging up in the first place. He then he asked you why you were here and you said that car troubles, how your car battery died in the middle of nowhere and now you were stranded.. he promised to help you get a new car battery as long as you helped him get rid of that cat-man and drove him far away from this desert. You agreed to this.

The two of you have been looking through the junkyard and broken down cars in hopes of finding a battery for the past few days. He taught you how to shoot a shotgun and let you use his sometimes to shoot random things, mostly cans, just in case you meet this creature one unfortunate day… he also shared his one mattress that he had with you and even his food, even with short supply..

Today, nothing too interesting happened. The man had been busy trying to fix the elevator almost all day and you didn’t have much to do in general. At the moment, you were just lying on the mattress and staring up at the ceiling, just letting your thoughts wonder..

They were eventually cut off after awhile when the man came into the room and sat down on the edge of the mattress, rubbing his face with his hands to try and calm himself down from the rather stubborn elevator..

“…So… what are you thinking about?”