Archon of the Covenant

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DDC39 rolled around the park trail leading up to Picacho Peak, its dust eddies obscuring Interstate-10 in the distance. The sun was just behind the peak now, casting a monolith eclipse on the eastern desert floor. The quiet brumeland of old memories. A breeze whispered through dead weeds and around DDC39’s frame as it made its way through the national park. Adrift in solitude amongst the dry brush.

DDC39, the sentinel, has been out on recovery for over a year. It left the Martinez Manufacturing Complex on full-autonomous vectoring and followed its own scans to the northern Sonoran desert — what was once the American Southwest. If there was any salvageable human life, any living person without prefrontal cortical hypotrophy (PCH), Sonora would be one of the few places they could possibly be — the satellite data having confirmed this. This was what it was programmed to do. To find a survivor.

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