>>12007278After reaching the destination Holt immediately crouched load and thrust himself against the cover one of the tightly packed hills of snow provided, assuming that he would be dropping in hot. Fortunately that didn't seem to be the case this time, but even so, he wanted to be cautious and not hedge his bets on being spotted after touching down. All was quiet save for the groan of machinery to the west, which was consequently where he was looking. The glare of snow and the distance made that troubling, so for now he put that off while pulling a pair of binoculars out of his coat pocket.
During the gear up he had
>implied changing into something befitting the terrain, making Zera do the same. He looked around the group and noticed the girl wasn't here. To which he cursed 'fuck!' in a terse whisper that had him sprawling up the sides of the gully to see if she was in sight. Apparently not, Sakuri had got separated.
"Damn it." He repeated to himself, going ahead with his prior plan and unfolding a set of binoculars, using them to scan the horizon both for her and to sneak a peek at the base beyond the razor wire perimeter. While doing this he was being very careful to stay low and let his clothing break up his form against the fields of snow.
