so a while ago, i was playing artificer, trying to see if i could ascend even after having killed the scav king. i had just made it back out of metropolis and gone to sleep in the topside pebbles shelter (to restock and not have to spend another 20 years farming scavs for one with enough karma to open the door)
and to my great surprise
i found, atop a massive heap of bomb spears and grenades
a single
light blue
slugpup.
i remember just. standing there. for minutes. contemplating how arti must have felt.
she had lost both her children.
killed thousands of scavengers for revenge.
and yet,
standing right in front of her,
upon a towering monument to her hatred and fury,
was the spitting image of her long-lost child.
flesh and bone, solid to the touch, as real as anything ever could be.
her child.