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With the keys falling into your lap, you are sorely tempted to just unlock the door and enter the police building, but you have to stop yourself. Easy entry has not negated the dangers inherent in an uncleared and unsecured building that saboteurs and wreckers would have every incentive to rig into a trap. You will take the time you have to assemble a proper team, take and secure the building, and only then search it for the radio equipment you know to be inside. This plan also has the additional advantage of familiarizing you with the units under your command; you will get to see just how the 7th operates in the field.
Pocketing the key ring, you wave at the other two men: “Come on, we’re going back to 7th Company HQ.” Matsukov nods wordlessly, but Meliev looks perplexed and stares at you, finally saying: “Sir, aren’t those the keys to…” His question trails off as he meets your uncompromising gaze. He looks down and away and takes up a position at the tail of your little group heading back to the jeep parked out front.
When you are all fitting back into the vehicle, Meliev starts up the engine and turns back towards you: “Just a moment sir, I’m going to radio ahead so they expect us at the school.” He then picks up the dangling radio mouthpiece and, after experimentally tapping the breaker button several times, speaks out: “SGCMVD-1217 transmitting. Request copy. Over.”
You hear the buzz of the radio and vaguely hear a string of numbers read out in response. Meliev picks up the mouthpiece again: “1217 swim upriver. Over” Hmmm… you don’t recognize the code – which makes sense that the Internal Ministry would use a different one than the Army – but it is reassuring that they are speaking in code, and transmitting quickly too. You hear another short response from the imbedded radio speaker and then Meliev returns the handset to its nook.
