Commonwealth. Oktober 2287. Das tägliche Überleben? Schwierig. Raider und andere Gefahren setzten den normalen Leuten täglich mehr zu. Gerüchte über das Institut, das Leute entführte und sie gegen synthetische Ebenbilder ersetzte, machten die Runde. Angst war ein täglicher Begleiter. Würde sich das je im Commonwealth ändern?"
Piper Wright had never found a story she didn't want to tell. Truth was absolute in her mind. Right and wrong, good and evil. But like so much in the Commonwealth, that had changed. And it had all been changed by one woman. But just who was that woman? Did any of them really know her? Or did they only know the world she'd left them? Part of the "Shattered Illusions" Collection.
It's all gone, her world, her life, swallowed by time and replaced by a rotting husk as she slept. The story of the Sole Survivor as she makes her way through a world that has long since left her behind. Dealing with her loss, her desire for vengeance and the hope that she can find some semblance of the life that was taken from her.
Nick Valentine and Curie meet for the first time and have a discussion regarding their pasts, their parallels, and what it means to be human.
Nora has had enough. One Paladin tries to get the last word as she and Nick leave Boston Airport following supply negotiations, and that is the absolutely the last straw. A (slightly) NickxNora oneshot. Several other character mentions. Rating, because I'm paranoid, for language and character instability.
A miracle, she had called him. A miracle of engineering maybe, if it was a day for flattering himself, but that wasn't the kind of miracle she needed. All Nora knew was that her best friend had come back from the dead, and he would have to tell her the truth eventually. Nick the cop was nothing but a weathered headstone now. Nick the detective? He was nothing but a ghost.
Homo Faber is the concept, that we're able to able to control our fate and the environment as a result of the use of tools, engineering and science. Perhaps one can only unlearn such concept by being thrusted into a world where such concept doesn't rationally apply anymore. Rated M for violence, drug references, sex and alcohol.