Walking along what would be a main street in the shadow of the traveller is nothing but an alleyway here in the dust palace. In such open ground the feeling of being watched is unavoidable, humouring the idea of getting to higher ground but the monolithic mountains of sand make that task harder than it's worth. Bringing up the hud on the screen the A.I attempts to provide a way out but sand quickly blocks up one way and just a quickly another street will become passable making the system erratic. A noise echoes through the street of steel being bent or crushed and curiosity won over caution, following the noise the hud said the objective was ahead. As the noise continued to echo of the wall's of collapsed and crumbling buildings a cabal seemed to be the source of it as it was trying to use it's shield and gun as tool's to try and pry open the door to the same building the hud displayed as the waypoint. Preferring to sit and wait for the cabal to do the hard work when a guttural scream took the place of the crashing steel. The cabal had caught my scent, i dragged my feet and what felt like half my body through the sand as the cabal charged at me through the sand as if it was not there. Sending waves of sand crashing to either side of the beast, coming dangerously close i attempt to dodge out of the way but just seem to fall to the side because of the sand. The cabal was upon me, raising it's shield into the air i focus my magic and unleash the energy at the feet of my enemy causing an explosion of sand... as i walk away blood that's not mine drips into the sand.