"NYC Department of Sanitation Central Repair Shop". The long name nearly reached off her withered Pip-Boy's screen. The map indicated a distance of 1,600 feet left until she'd reach the treasure trove of old world tech she was told about by a Liberty Island bartender. The only thing in her way was a sea of graves. Mt Zion Cemetery, claimed by the superstitious to be haunted by ancient spirits. Howls of their lost souls emanating from deep within the stony labyrinth, some like to say anyway. She had no fears regarding the people long past, more to do with the feral ghouls that feast on their dug up corpses.

She sat atop the guard railing of the old elevated 495 high way. It was quiet, the only sound coming from the ember at the end of her cigarette and the deep breathes she took after every drag. A stretch of road typically full of roving caravans, desolate with the approaching sun set and rumored dangers hidden in the wasteland's dusty dark. The dark allowed her benefits, her night vision goggles allowed for sight while any run-of-the-mill raider couldn't see her. She limited her threats to only the stupid ghouls. She rose binoculars to her eyes to check once more for any other easier way around the cemetery. Aside from the fallen remains of the nearby 278, her only other option would be booking it through the dense neighborhoods nearby, but the likely presence of super mutants or raiders cleared that idea from her mind. So it was settled, through the cemetery.

As the last sun ray vanished behind the horizon, as her cigarette butt hit the street below, the dark ambiance of twilight arose. Echo lowered her binoculars and repelled down the side of the 495 highway, landing into the edge of the cemetery. Gravestones obstructed her view of the distant facility, but she could still see two towering smokestacks from the the facility's adjacent factory. She swept her ashen hair out of her remaining pale blue eye, and started on her way through the burial grounds as stealthily as possible. Knowing that any sound could alert ghouls to her presence.


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