"Hey, now, don't insult Rebecca like that," he said, taking the gun back. He sighed, gazing down at her forlornly. "She's stuck around longer than anyone else has. We've been through both the best of times and the worst of times, together. Hard to just...throw her away."
"We'll start out with just a BB gun, but once you get older, son, this gun right here will be yours. A gun is your best friend, so long as you remember the difference between the safety and the trigger. Haha. Good advice for both guns and women!"
"The entrance should be somewhere near here," Basil said, squinting against the approaching darkness. Despite having traveled the entire day and being exhausted, he felt a surge of excitement begin to serve as a backup source of energy now that they had finally arrived. "The entrance could be covered or overgrown, so we may need to look around."
"Looks a lot like nowhere to me," Leith mumbled, though he knew the kid was right. But if the entrance was hidden or overgrown, that could mean two things. One, that the residents never came out and could even be living down there even to this day; though they were rare, he had heard of vaults that had managed to persist in spite of the circumstances surrounding their existence. However, there could just be a bunch of dead bodies down there. The second was that someone had deliberately obscured the entrance, meaning that they were ready to keep anything out. Therefore, he doubted that they'd be very welcoming of guests who desired to look through their possessions.