(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 wintertime Zone slowly giving way to a spring, with the slush on the ground crunching beneath your feet)

Exploring a newly discovered area of Backwater, formerly Zaton, you hear quiet yet emotionless sobbing from a nearby tent break through the incessant clicking of your radiation meter

Coming closer and looking through a gap in the tent flaps reveals a Monolith sniper cradling her Gauss Rifle, sobbing into it quietly

"Why have you left us... Oh Monolith..."

Her eyes are empty yet they hold a sort of longing in them, same with her voice