Kaelen looked up from the broken coolant valve he was trying to rewire. Through the grating of the airlock, he saw her: a woman swathed in oil-stained linen, dragging a half-functional crawler-bot behind her. She moved with a limp, and the bot’s rear legs sparked uselessly against the stone.
A Home in the Desert is a story about finding humanity in a hopeless place. It contrasts the harsh, orange brutality of the wasteland with the intimate, cool safety of the "Home." The protagonist must decide if he is just passing through or if he is willing to fight to make this sanctuary his permanent home. A Home in the Desert -v0.4.5- By Misarmor