Astra had been without food for two days, and she had run out of water yesterday... things weren't looking good. As she sat, squatting in an old apartment complex behind a ruined couch that was covered in burns, with a blackened skeleton lying where it had died when the bombs dropped. In front of her were her guns and ammunition, a hunting rifle and 10 shots, and her 10mm pistol with about a clip and a half. She sighed as she loaded her guns, lamenting her hunger and thirst, and got ready to move on in search of something, anything to eat.

She moved not unlike a cat through the ruined apartments of New york, though her ill fitting armor did slow her down somewhat. As she moved from building to building building over wooden ramps that had been erected over time or over collapsed staiwells, she wondered what had happened back in Vault 81 after everyone else learned it was open... would anything change at all? She was sure nothing would change for her sisters, or her mother or the Overseers other wives... the Overseer... could how angry was he when he discovered Astra had escaped? Did he abuse his other wives in retribution? Or worse, could he be looking for her? She had considered it a possibility from the first day she ran, being his favorite plaything. Though she hadn't seen anything for the month or so she had been gone now... as she had gone as far as she could as fast as possible and had only recently needed to forage for  food and water  extensively.

She fell, Astra had been deep in thought she had not been paying attention to her footing and had taken a nasty fall into a hole in one of the apartments she was moving throughs floorboards. she tumbled a fair distance before catching herself on a length of inactive electrical wire that was haning from the ruined walls of the old complex. It hurt, alot, but she didn't think she had seriously hurt herself... then he saw it. A huge building, long and tall with coloumns and huge doors. AS she was hanging upside down and looking through a giant hole in the wall of an apartment she couldn't see a whole lot else. After getting down and disentangling herself from thw wires Astra decided to get a closer look.

She got to just outside of the doors and had crouched behind a car when she saw them. Walking down the steps were three men in what looked like power armor walking down the steps up to the entrance. Two of them had books in their arms, while the third one simply walked out in front. He appeared as though he had been talking to someone inside the building. The men looked like what the Overseer said the old U.S. army looked like... she decided to stay put until they were gone, considering herself small enough to avoid being seen... she hoped as three large and heavily armored men didn't it well with her.