It wasn't until Lightning arose Tesla from his slumber in the hooves of Sunny, that Kira took her eyes from the ruins of the pre-war city. The gryphon watched Tesla walk closer to her.
"You should get some sleep."
Kira looked back out the window. "He's out there, somewhere. And if the memory was right, he's not well.
Tesla put a hoof on Kira's shoulder. "We won't be helping anypony by stumbling around in the dark. So please, get some rest."
Kira sighed and took a few hesitant steps away from the window before heading into the back room. Tesla watched her go then turned to look out at the same cityscape. Letting out a sigh, he turned from the window and did his best to stay awake until he could return to the warmth of Sunny's body.
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Somewhere in Manehattan, a coughing zebra worked furiously. He scratched at the ground with his hoof and a length of rebar. He drew strait lines for streets and curves for rubble and things any sized group would have to avoid. When he was done, he placed litter to represent buildings. As he finished placing the litter, he retrieved his armor. It was tattered and well used, having seen many months of hard abuse and several different hells. The armor was coming up on its last leg and that made the zebra sad. He knew he couldn't bring it. Despite it being light, it still would slow him down. He aslo didn't want anything bad to befall one of his last trinkets from his home. So, placing it at the right end of the map, he bid it farewell.
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In the morning, every member of the party gathered their supplies. The building they were in was an old pre-war radiostation called CJNR; Manehattan's Jazz and News Radio. The reason they were there was the street they had hoped to just walk up to Cadence Plaza, had a collapsed sky scraper laying in the middle. Fortunately, CJNR's antanea had fallen sometime after the balefire apocalypse and onto a building across the street. That building had collapsed onto the one next to it, allowing the group to walk across what would have been the side of the appartment building, when it was still standing strait. Then they could go down the building the appartment complex had collapsed against, and back onto the street.