Coming to Concord had been just as likely to be a good idea as a bad one at the time X had decided to on this course of action, now it seemed less than the most advantageous place to be.  Leaning against the corner of a building somewhere south of the mini-nuke’s explosion, a new threat announced itself in the frustrated growling of a Deathclaw.  The immediately obvious decision was to secret himself away in one of the buildings and remain undetected until the creature left the area.

He turned, one hand feeling along the side of the building hiding him from the Deathclaw, which was noisily trying to get at whatever prey was eluding it.  He took a step forward and heard a beeping coming from below.  Immediately he dropped to his good knee, dropping his walking stick, jamming his thumb against the emergency safety of the fragmentation mine (aptly named the "dead man's switch").  Likely he could have disarmed it, if he could still see... But for now, he wasn’t going anywhere…