[ooc: Thanks! I am so nervous and so excited! Also, any ideas on where we want this thread to go? I'd love to see it go right through the crystal scene (skipping around a bit if we need to) and the 'what the hell do we do now'? and out into the ten years. I've never gotten to play that out before.]

At least it's a fabulous mullet to be well aquainted with?

Gladio, so far, hasn't seen one other living being besides Prompto and daemons (if they can be considered 'living') since he lost sight of Noctis and Ignis. Everyone's gone, dead or... changed, though he doesn't know the latter so much, yet. "All I want to find are the two other and the Crystal. That's the important stuff right now; anything else we find out other than that's just a bonus I guess."

He can feel Prompto tightening up, but he isn't sure what in reaction to. About Ardyn? (What did that bastard do to Prom?) About the eerie silence of the city around them? About the gods damned MTs that keep sometimes coming into view? About all of this hell? Doesn't blame him a bit; he might be getting a bit of comfort from the feeling of Prompto up against his back. Not that he'd admit that.

"We just need to-" Gladio stops, cocking his head and listening. "You hear that?" He's not sure if he's imagining it, but he thinks somewhere he's hearing some kind of... crackling?