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Aaran couldn't be sure as to what the lead's obsession with umbrellas was. He guessed they could be a valuable item as they kept you dry and could be used for a weapon, but many of the clear view ones were too small to be of great use. But whatever he thought about it didn't matter because, if their leaders wanted umbrellas, then he needed to get some.

He looked around the apartments, hoping to find someone to team up with, when he saw a lone figure by her lonesome. He'd seen Amber around before, but beyond that he didn't know her. She had seemed a little....what was the word? Loner? Maybe that was it.

"Hey" He walked up to her with a relaxed smile on his face. "Have you been outside today? If not, we could team up and venture out into the great unknown. I hear we need to stock up on more umbrellas"

The meat shield known as Aaran was pleased she wanted to tag along, and he also learned her name at the same time. "Sweet. And no worries about your name, because I know it now." He stood there, slightly leaning on one leg, still smiling and being chill as ever. "Mines Aaran Brody. By the way, dude, Amber is a really nice name." He thought it nice to add it on, and also hoped she didn't mind the 'dude' thrown in there.

He lead the way to the apartment doors, not walking too far ahead or behind Amber, waving to the guards as he exited the doors as he kept a tight hold of his umbrella and key card. Now hopefully he wouldn't forget the salute either. The usual dreary scene met his gaze, grey skies and turned over cars, as well as rubbish littered area and the occasional fire. But so far, no umbrellas to be seen.

He kept walking, glancing at Amber as he did so. "So..uhh...how you...." He didn't finish, unsure how to talk about the subject or even broach it. For all he knew she could be a emotional wreck, and he didn't want to start pushing nay buttons.

Well, at least she was laughing? Aaran wasn't sure if this was a good thing or not, but he wouldn't let it trouble him for now, as he had to keep his wits about him. His own umbrella was being used to prob and poke at piles of rubbish to see if anything would move, before he dared to start using his bare hands, bending down to sort through things.

"Good to hear you're coping alright." He glanced at the girl, and at their surroundings. Being the male of the pair he felt responsible for their safety and all. "It's been a really difficult few weeks we've had to put up with. I'm amazed I'm still alive. This hole mess has been a huge bummer."

He couldn't help but notice how the girl was smiling though. She had been smiling the whole time, a small smirk on her face. It was kinda odd. especially how she was talking now. Like the full physician probing of the universe and all that. It nearly went over his head.

"Yeah, I guess...thats pretty true. Words still the same." Though it was hard to really believe that, he was in a apocalypse after all.

It was hard for him to know if he was coping alright or not. The only thing Aaran truly knew was he would just go with it, take whatever came his way and hope for the best. If not, then he'd just try and find a way to deal with it.

"I don't know about that." he replied honesty, hands reaching into more debris, his head soon to follow. "We might not...'grunt' have anything left but 'mmff' there are some people who have less then nothing. At least I still have my arms and legs."

His body vanished as he hoped into a small hole. "People have never been good at the whole equal thing. We like to take things off people. And." He paused, shuffling more garbage around "They can still take one thing away. Our lives."

Aaron finally appeared, smiling as he held up a very messed up looking umbrella. "Found one too!"

Perhaps it was a good that Aaran didn't see Amber's smile as he went to hunt around for more umbrellas. "Yeah, I guess so. Gotta try and be positive, otherwise you might lose it." He jogged towards a car located near the one Amber was in, crawling onto the bonnet and then the roof so he could get a better view of his surroundings, And when he didn't see anything of interest he sat down and waited patiently for the girl, legs swinging idly while he watched her search.

"How do you know that for sure?" He asked curiously, leaning back on his hands. Judging by her answer he could tell she wasn't a religious person. He himself wasn't deeply religious, but he wasn't about to write off the hole afterlife thing. "There could be something out there".

He gave her the thumbs up when she retrieved a umbrella that had once resembled a animal of some sort. "Nice, looks like you're beating me by one. October will be happy."

Aaran could only shrug at Ambers question, as he wasn't a expert on such things "Never said god was a nice guy." Was his first reply. "But hey, that sounds totally cool. Solid thinking you have there." It sounded almost like Buddhism, too. "Improving yourself and not thinking about anything else is a awesome thing to do. Not that I'm approving your beliefs or anything. Totally up to you what you think."

He sighed, smiling faintly and hopping off the car hood to move around the front. "I'm not too good at these political talks." On a whim he leaned into the front window to press a button under the dash to pop the bonnet, then went to the front. "Wonder if this car still works...wish I had all my tools." He hummed, checking out the oil and transmission levels. "Damn, they took the battery with them...Oh, hey, whats this?" He reached in between the pipework, and pulled out a small, oil covered umbrella. "Wonder what it was doing here?"

"That does sound familiar. Though I can't remember which one it was either." He leaned in further to examine the state of the engine. "Hmm, you think so?" He twisted a few caps off to look inside.

"You're right, most don't work, since the good ones were taken long ago. The ones left are just broken hunks of junk. This one doesn't look to bad, but there are some lose wires about. Doesn't appear to be any gas left either, Probably siphoned off long ago. Though there is some water left in the radiator. If we get desperate." He stood back, wiping dirty hands on his pants. "No license? Thats a bummer. Oh well, don't need one now, As you said, no laws, so who's gonna book you for driving?"He chuckled at the thought. Now all they needed was a decent car.