GoW - Winter in Sysphullan - Chapter 2

Walking around the corridors of Sysphullan, Kandace had made her way one of the medical bays, she opened one of the tents to find one of the Theron guards with red tinted armour and horns on his helmet, refilling his syringes. "Hmm? Is someone there?" He put down his medical supplies and turned his head to his right. "Yes Coquelicot, it's me. I decided to drop by and check up on you guys." Coquelicot stood up only to turn his head out the side of the tent. "Did you see Stizza by chance? I swear, I told him not to go outside..." Kandace turned her head in the same direction and sighed. "I guess it's too late for that. I sent him inside though. I know you spent a while looking for metal that wouldn't rust." He sat back against his chair and pulled out some files he needed to look over. "Well, if you happen to see him, make sure the arm isn't too bad, okay?" He took papers and started writing and filing them as Kandace cracked her knuckles and took one of the syringes. "Yeah, he's probably doing something real stupid. I'll look into it."

Outside the armoury Stizza was hanging out with a boomer by the name of Oxblood, normally they talked about their thoughts on any recent topics or talk about the other locusts behind their back, like a band of misfits. "...And then, the bastard throws a grenade against the wall, it misses the human, richochets, and blows that drone into chunks, and injuring me in the process, and that's how I lost my arm." Stizza placed his prosthetic on a shelf and relaxed his loose shoulder. Kandace turned the corner and grabbed the limb and checked to see if it was corroded. When he asked what she was doing with it, she explained that Coquelicot was simply worried about the state of the metal.
"Oh, so Coquelicot got a tad worried, eh? Well it shouldn't be a big deal, I mean it's doing just fine right?" Oxblood shrugged and Stizza reattached it to his stub and turned an eye to Kandace. "I mean, I can take care of myself, if your gonna worry about a guy, at least worry about Skorge, or something." Kandace laughed a bit and rolled her eyes as Clarity walked behind her and tapped on her shoulder. "Hey, I finished hanging the stuff around the entrance! Wanna see?" They followed her to the entrance and looked at the pretty lights. "The lights are a nice colour, right Stizza?" "Well, Ox, the colours DO compliment each other well." Clarity turned her head and giggled. "So you like them? That's good. It took a while to set up." "Well, they could give our location away. Place them somewhere else where they won't be spotted as easily. I'll get Stizza and Oxblood to help." Clarity nodded her head as Oxblood and Stizza brought down the ornaments and left down the middle hall. When the clock almost hit midnight Kandace took her cloak off and removed her boots and relaxed on her bed listening to music, thinking about the upcoming events of the following weeks, until she was ready to sleep.