In the early morning hours, Larkin is still with Lark2n as their meeting rolled over into the night with the two taking a sleep break, they are currently nestled in an abandoned temple
Larkin: Ok, so just say everything again so I understand
Lark2n: Alright, fine, but this is the last time so please pay attention
Larkin: I probably won’t
Lark2n: I swear t-
Larkin: Kidding, I’ll try to listen and follow along the best I can
Lark2n: Ok, so I came to this valley because it was mentioned as a site of interest in Department X files. They were interested in the legend of the Phoenix and trying to verify if it had any amount of truth to it. Finding a creature that could restore itself would have been really helpful to their research
Larkin: So they wanted to investigate this place for their research
Lark2n: However, they could never find it
Larkin: Right and you’re here because you wanted to try to verify it’s existence
Lark2n: Correct
Larkin: Alright, now Department X had other endeavors
Lark2n: I found a secret encoded matrix in their labs that might be coordinates to a secret base in the Arctic
Larkin: Ok, so after you leave the valley you will investigate that
Lark2n: Correct, now anymore questions or are we good?
Larkin: Lark2n, was there anything interesting about the notes made about the guardian Phoenix in Department X’s notes?
Lark2n: Well now that you mention it, I believe that there was a note about how “a connected soul conduit might be responsible for the ease of resurrection”
Larkin: Referring to the tree?
Lark2n: There’s a tree?
Larkin: The Soul Tree, how haven’t you seen it yet
Lark2n: I wasn’t paying attention to that
Larkin: Come on man
Lark2n: Ok, well you can’t fault me for everything
Larkin: I very much can
The two laughed briefly, before pausing
Lark2n: I wish…I had a friend
Larkin: I mean why do you need a friend if you have immortality and endless power
Lark2n: Well I only have myself to blame for that, spending eight whole years weaseling my way through Department X’s confines, trying to find anyway to get the praise I thought I deserved. It’s hard to find respect as a pile of goo that just angrily screamed at people.
Larkin: What do you mean by that
Lark2n: You know…it’s almost not fair, you got to live your whole life believing you were just some kid and got to have the experience of being in the Century Corps, almost like a real family. I never had that, I was stuck in a dark laboratory with clones of myself all day, never really knowing anything else but “be evil, kill the enemies of Department X”.
Larkin: I guess…that would suck
Lark2n: I felt like I had to find the Adamite Key…like it was the only way I could get the respect of other people. I thought the Century Corps was solely built to stand in my way, I thought seizing control of Department X would make people respect me. In reality, all that happened was the organization fell apart after the truth came out and I was so focused on the Adamite Key that I realized I didn’t do anything else for all those years. Department X was the only home I had ever known, and I knew nothing about it despite leading it for years.
Larkin: I’m sorry you felt that way, I…
Larkin felt weird sympathy for the weird goo clone of him that tried to kill him on multiple occasions.
Larkin: I can’t imagine being in that situation, I just wonder why you didn’t just move on from Department X, hide in a cave somewhere and live the rest of your life as cave slime?
Lark2n: I know there’s something important being hidden, something that relates to me and you
Larkin: Did you come here to try and find something related to it, even just a little bit?
Lark2n: You could say that, I was scouring for every bit of information I could gather on Department X, I had to check here just in case they actually made it here
Larkin: Keep looking man
Lark2n: I don’t plan to stop
Larkin: Well, is there anything else
Lark2n: Maybe, let’s go find your friends
Larkin: That sounds good to me
Larkin and Lark2n get up and go to find the Century Corps base camp.
Back at the Century Corps base camp, Boone is loading their rifle again, inspecting various ammunitions and examining their gun
Boone: If no one wants to do something, I’ll do something
As Boone continues going through their ammunition, they hear something, like a strange noise
Boone: I guess I should check that out
Boone put down their gun and walked over to what they thought the commotion was. As it turned out, one of Nest’s birds had knocked over an equipment stand.
Nest: Oh whoops
Aiden: You might want to avoid that in the future
Oseci: So, what were you doing here
Nest: Oh I was just looking for some basic equipment, I figured I would go link back up with Larkin, since it’s been a while since we’ve seen him
Iehn: That’s a good call, I can come with you if you’d like
Nest: Well, maybe that’d be a good idea
Boone: I can go with you
Everyone turns to Boone, who they didn’t notice enter the scene
Nest: Really?
Boone: Lilac and Olivia are taking too long to come up with a plan, let’s just go get our ally back and see if he learned anything new from his slime friend
Aiden: Well that sounds fair, I wonder what’s taking them so long to come up with a new plan
Iehn: This whole thing revolves around the Dark Mirror, hence why we raided Rahihi’s stash in the first place. I imagine there’s another plan to steal the Dark Shard being worked on.
Nest: Finding that Buzzard is going to be the hard part
Boone: Until we find that Buzzard, our best bet is to just learn what we can about this valley and the Soul Tree.
Nest: Maybe one of you can help Mygin with something
Oseci: That wouldn’t be a bad idea
Aiden: We can ask them what they need
Oseci: I’ll make sure to tell everyone that you two will be out looking for Larkin
Nest: Yeah, you can do that
Oseci: I think I will
Iehn: If you want me to come with you, just let me know.
As everyone else leaves, it just leaves Boone and Nest
Nest: Hey, I’m sorry for yelling at you earlier, I was just really worried about my friend
Boone: Oh, I’m kind of the last person to be apologized too, and I understand how you feel, it’s agonizing to watch that stuff happen to people you care about
Nest: Yeah, but hopefully we can find a solution
A brief silence takes hold before Boone speaks again
Boone: So what is your actual plan?
Nest: Am I really that bad at hiding my intent?
Boone: Well you clearly wouldn’t want just you and me to go pick up Larkin, are you looking for something that could help Hadane?
Nest: Guilty as charged, Larkin might have learned something we didn’t already know, thus I need to be the first to hear it
Boone: I feel you, sometimes you just need to know something
Nest: I do have a question for you, why volunteer to help me
Boone: Well…I get it, you want to do anything you can to help the people you love. It sort of reminded me of myself and my desire to get revenge for my family.
Nest: What do you mean by that?
Boone begins to smile a little
Boone: Well, I sort of started remembering why I wanted revenge in the first place, because I loved my family. Seeing the dynamic between Uruo and Rahihi, the Larkins dynamic and you and Hadane, it reminded me of how it felt to be connected to a group of people.
Nest: I see, do you want to talk about it?
Boone: I think there could be a lot to talk about, let’s go get our friend
The two begin to embark through the valley
Begin Mission: Two Of A Kind
Boone and Nest have joined your party, there is no Unit Reserve for this mission
The two of them come across a somewhat craggy path, they have no idea where it goes
Nest: I feel like maybe we should have brought a navigator with us
Boone: It’s too late for that now
Nest: I can tell, let’s just go for it
Boone continues to smile, smiling genuinely
Boone: Heh, what’s the worst that could happen
Travel down the craggy path
When they are at 5%
Nest: So Boone, what was the best part about being a Dad?
Boone: Well…that’s sort of a hard question to answer, maybe because the entire thing was like a confusing mess of happiness, frustration but most of all the utmost pride. You just want to see your children do the best they can and when they achieve something, even when it’s minor, it’s one of the best feelings in the world
Nest: is it really that simple
It almost looks like Boone is about to cry for a second
Boone: It really is that simple, me and my partner, we wanted our children to be the best they could be and be who they wanted to be
Continue down the craggy path
When they are at 10%, the sky above them begins darkening slightly
Nest: What the heck is going on up there?
Boone: I think you and I both know something is up
WIthout warning, a group of Hollows steps out from the clearing
Boone: Looks like we got uninvited guests
Nest: Normally this is something we’d do all together, not as a duo
Boone: We got to give it our best shot
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Nest: Dad joke?
Boone: I didn’t even realize I had made a dad joke there
Nest: You still got it even after everything that happened
Boone: I guess I do
Fight against The Hollows
When you win
Boone: Well damn, I thought it would be harder with just the two of us
Nest: I guess we really make that good of a team
Boone: Let’s keep going, Larkin can’t be too far from here
Continue down the craggy path
When they are 15% down the path
Boone: So how did you and Hadane become friends?
Nest: Well, we first met like 4 or 5 years ago, when my old guild got merged with the Century Corps. I was looking for some new friends and saw Hadane leave a meeting with the grandmaster, I thought she was supposedly really important, but she saw me looking, I guess lost was the word. She invited me over to her side and just let herself be someone I could talk to.
Boone: So she was open to you, and in response you opened yourself to her
Nest: You could definitely say that, someone being so nice to me, just deserved that same effort back.
Continue down the craggy path
When they are 20% down the path, the sky grows slightly darker
Nest: Stormy weather must be inbound
Boone: I mean it can’t be as bad as the weather back from my first Titan hunt?
Nest: Your first Titan hunt?
Boone: Before I had a family, I was hunting this Titan called Teggao with a group. Our first expedition to try to slay the beast took us through this terrible storm. Constant rain, muddy terrain, we were slipping and sliding all over each other trying to get a shot off against the monster.
Boone had a sort of laugh before continuing their sentence
Boone: Eventually mud jammed all our guns so we had to hide in a bush for several hours
Nest: In a bush?
Boone: Yeah, in a bush, outside, in the rain, with us sitting on the muddy ground
Nest also laughs a little
Nest: I bet that wasn’t fun
Boone: It’s something I can laugh at now and also think “I wish we hadn’t done that”
Continue down the craggy path
When they are 25% down the path, a small bird flies over and lands on Nest’s helmet
Boone: So why are you such a draw to birds?
Nest: They just like me for some reason. No one could ever explain to me why
Boone: Like, no one had an explanation?
Nest: My dad talked to everyone he could possibly get a handle on and nobody ever had an explanation. Then when he kicked me out everyone I saw didn’t have an explanation either. Everyone I asked in the guild didn’t have a solid one either. I just won’t know, it feels a little cheap, but it doesn’t matter in the end because it’s who I am and knowing why wouldn’t change it
Boone: Would you want to know if you could?
Nest: Well maybe, learning I had this wonderful ability because I was built as an instrument of evil or something would suck but if I learned that I had it through more benevolent or neutral means wouldn’t suck.
The bird leaves Nest’s helmet
Nest: I guess I’m thankful I have this ability no matter what the source is
Continue down the craggy path
When they are 30% down the path
Nest: So you said your previous job was hunting Titans?
Boone: Well, it was part of my old job as a Titan hunter, the titan Teggao was our primary target as various governments wanted it dead due to the damage it caused and the terrible weather that often followed it.
Nest: Yeah, you did mention the weather there was terrible, how did you kill it if it just brought bad weather wherever it went
Boone: We actually had to study it in great detail and appear where it was going to before it did, and kill it then before the terrible weather made our job harder than it already was going to be
Nest: How do you kill a Titan, those things are enormous
Boone: It sounds cliche but teamwork, we simply fired our special ammunition at it until it died
Nest: Oh, that makes sense. You said you had special ammunition too so I guess that helped
Boone pulls out a special round from their armor pocket
Boone: This thing is a special round that can penetrate straight through the skin of those behemoths
Nest: Why do you still have it
Boone: Saving it for a special occasion
Continue down the craggy path
When they are 35% down the path
Nest: You know…I never imagined being an adventurer like this back when I was the city vagrant
Boone: What do you mean by that?
Nest: When I was kicked out of my house, I just thought I’d be a homeless person doing odd jobs forever
Boone: What changed that perception?
Nest: Funnily enough, The Buzzard in a weird way. He was going to kill me and just take my crest when he was terrorizing the city we lived in, taking away crests left and right. The Century Corps were luckily there to help me out.
Boone: In a weird way the people who saved you put you on this path
Nest: Well…they weren’t there for the Buzzard
Nest pulls out the blue coin from her armor
Nest: They were here for this coin. This detective guy had the coin on him, he gave it to me so he didn’t have to give it back to whoever he took it from.
Boone: So your life was saved by a coin?
Nest: It feels reductive to say, but yeah, it kind of was. I always keep this on me now as kind of a good luck charm, something that I know has helped me before.
Continue down the craggy path
When they are at 40%
Boone: This talk of mementoes reminds me of something, I left my picture of my family back at the camp
Nest: You have a picture?
Boone: Well whenever I left the house I took it with me so I could be reminded that they were safe, in a weird way never keeping them in sight was a way that I could tell myself they were ok.
Nest: Well, I can’t see the picture right now, mind describing what it depicts
Boone: Well, a picture is better at telling stories than I am, but it depicted my two kids, both adopted, just running around the house while my partner was in the background…it’s a scene I like to remember
Nest: Why don’t you have one with you in the frame
Boone: I don’t feel like I belong in the photo anymore…like I try picturing myself there, taking the photo, and it hurts to think about
Nest: Well, why don’t you see yourself in the photo anymore?
Boone: It’s just been so long since I can remember being happy, so it feels like a wound being reopened. But…
Boone begins to cry a little
Boone: Maybe…I should think about it more
Continue down the craggy path
When they are 45% down the path
Boone: Nest, why do you fight?
Nest: Pardon me?
Boone: I remember someone once said, you need a reason to fight.
Nest: Well….
Nest began to remember something
Nest: I guess I don’t exactly know…I never really figured it out. I think I just fight because I feel like I need to survive
Boone: Maybe it’s time to fight for something that’s not just survival
Nest: Well…what do you mean
Boone: I told you why I fight, wanting revenge is pointless without a burning reason to do so. My reason is because I still had the capacity to love my family. It’s why it’s important to me, instead of just wanting revenge for the sake of revenge. When I looked at Ayev, I saw someone who just wanted revenge for the sake of getting revenge, and I remarked about it looking like a mirror because that was what I had become.
Nest: Well how does that affect me?
Boone: Why do you want to survive or why do you fight to extend your survival
Nest: Well…I guess it’s because…
Nest has to pause, thinking about the point of all of this
Nest: There’s people who believe in me…someone sees it, I know they do…I have to keep proving them right, every single day
Continue down the craggy path
When they are 50% down the craggy path, the sky has grown way darker than just storm clouds, as more hollows appear
Nest: Where the hell are we even?
Boone: I have no idea, but I don’t think Larkin is that far away from us, gut feeling
Nest: Did they just rendezvous inside a cave full of hollows or something? It seems weird for the sky to be dark in this area
Boone: Maybe, let’s just keep our eyes on the sky for a minute
Continue down the craggy path
When they are 55% down the craggy path, the Soul Falcon, who was hiding inside Nest’s armor, moves to Nest’s shoulder
Boone: There was a bird in your armor the whole time?
Nest: I think it senses something, it’s a strange fellow, but one that gives me a sense of strange familiarity
Boone: I wonder what it wants
Nest: Maybe it knows someone believes in it too
Boone: Or maybe it’s looking for someone else to protect
Nest: Well, I know this falcon believes in me, so I’ll believe in it
Boone: I believe in you too
Nest: Thank you
Boone: If anything else gets in our way, we’ll just simply deal with it together
Continue down the craggy path
When they are 60% down the path, a strange rustling noise is heard from the trees
Nest: I wonder what that’s about
Boone: Wait…
The two feel a familiar sense surround them
Nest: Boone…
Boone: I’m looking for it an-
Without warning, a vicious figure of their familiarity jumps out and lands on top of Boone but Boone shoots it off of them, Nest helps them off the ground almost immediately after. The familiar figure now at a distance looking back with those vaunted red eyes as more hollows appear
The Buzzard: Looks like my two favorite people are here, together, alone
The Buzzard laughs evilly as the two adventurers stare back at him, not moving a step
The Buzzard: What’s the matter, no big speeches of revenge? No cowering in fear? No friends to bail you out? No allies to save the day? I wonder how you even came all this way by yourselves
Boone looks at Nest, and she looks back
Boone: We don’t need anyone else here with us
Nest: I’m done cowering in fear
The Buzzard: You’re done being scared of me, that’s so cute, you really t-
Without warning, Nest just walks forward and punches the Buzzard in the face, making the shadowed monster stagger for a second
Nest: I’m being serious here
Boone: Let’s deal with the monster in our way
The Buzzard: No grand speeches of revenge, you’re just gonna brush me aside, like that’s gonna ha-
The Buzzard is quickly cut off by Boone firing a powerful shot into The Buzzard’s chest
Boone: I’m done being the audience of your theatrics
Nest: We’re ending this now
Fight against The Buzzard
When The Buzzard is at 90%
The Buzzard: It’s going to take a lot more than that to get rid of me. I can’t be disposed of so e-
The Buzzard is promptly cut off by The Soul Falcon dive bombing into the Buzzard’s stomach, with Boone going in and punching him in the face
Resume against The Buzzard
When The Buzzard is at 80%
The Buzzard: Oh, why so quiet? Did the big mouthed heroes suddenly think they were too sto-
The Buzzard is once again cut off, this time by a piercing bullet through his wings by Boone.
The Buzzard: Rude!
Boone: Well killing my family is rude, that shot’s a drop in the bucket compared to that
Resume against The Buzzard
When The Buzzard is at 70%
The Buzzard: Do you think you can treat me this way, interrupting me constantly wi-
The Buzzard is interrupted once again by Nest running up and punching him in the face again, knocking some of the darkness energy out of his figure with just the force of her left hook
Nest: Let’s just say I don’t give a damn about what you think
Boone: It’s a good thing it’s just the two of us
Resume against The Buzzard
When The Buzzard is at 60%, he tries to fly up and dive bomb Nest but she anticipates this movement and jumps up, grabbing The Buzzard
The Buzzard: HEY. GET OFF OF M-
Nest: No, I don’t think I will
Nest proceeds viciously pound on The Buzzard’s head, knocking him back down the ground with just her fists. As The Buzzard falls to the ground, Nest is caught by her avian friends
Boone: I didn’t know you could absolutely pummel like that
Nest: Me neither, is this what dad strength is like?
Boone: A little yeah, let me show you what that looks like
The Buzzard, still reeling from getting mercilessly pummeled back to the ground by Nest, is caught completely off guard by Boone running up to him and throwing him square into a tree trunk
Nest: You just THREW him?
Boone: Yeah and to think this was only a few days after he broke like all my bones
Nest: Well that’s due to our friend Iehn
Boone: She is pretty awesome
Resume against The Buzzard
When The Buzzard is at 50%, Larkin and Lark2n arrive on the scene, but they are in a tree, observing the three figures
Lark2n: What is that thing?
Larkin: The Buzzard, it’s an evil creature
Lark2n: Should we go fight it
Larkin: It actually looks like those two have it covered
Lark2n: Huh
Larkin: Let’s stay up here just so we can use the element of surprise to help them out in a pinch
Resume against The Buzzard
When The Buzzard is at 40%
Nest: This is somehow easier than when we all jumped him for the Dark Mirror Shard
Boone: I’m just having fun
The Buzzard, too shellocked to even speak, is once again rattled by Boone firing a barrage of bullets into his body
Nest: Beating up the source of your trauma makes for surprisingly great therapy
Boone: I mean that’s not wrong, I’m feeling better already, but I don’t think that’s exactly going to translate to civilian life or is a healthy coping mechanism
Nest: Yeah I’ll see a therapist when we get back home, but I can schedule that later
Resume against The Buzzard
When The Buzzard is at 30%
The Buzzard: Alright, I’m tired of this nonsense, I’m going to end this now
Boone: Oh no…The Buzzard’s going to use his “deadly wave attack”
The Buzzard: You’re damn right I am
The Buzzard tries using that attack he’s used several times in the past to knock down his enemies, but it simply doesn’t work on Boone or Nest this time
The Buzzard: What the fuck!!
They just sort of stand there, smiling at him
Nest: I’ve already accepted the part of me you exploit
The Buzzard: What, HOW did you discover how my attack worked?
Boone: We just kind of figured it out
Boone and Nest start slowly walking towards The Buzzard
The Buzzard: No, stop that, stop getting-
The look of fear on The Buzzard’s face is amplified as Nest and Boone get closer and then start absolutely beating him. From the tree, Larkin and Lark2n are stunned watching The Buzzard just get mercilessly assaulted by Nest and Boone. Punching and kicking him mercilessly
Larkin: Well I’ll be damned
However, during the assault, Lark2n sees something flying from behind
Lark2n: Wait, someone is approaching
Larkin: Huh?
Whizzing by the two of them is someone else, ready to interrupt Nest and Boone
The Buzzard: Hehe..hehe
Between punches, The Buzzard starts laughing and before Nest and Boone can figure out why, a blast of purple energy knocks them both away
Ayev: Surprise!!
Larkin: God damn it
Lark2n: Do we intervene now?
Larkin: Hold, it’s not an opportune situation yet
Nest and Boone get up, to look at Ayev and the severely beaten Buzzard
Boone: Is there a reason you’re here, Ayev
Ayev: I want revenge, and two partly guild members alone, seemed like the perfect opportunity
Nest: So you couldn’t have let us take the shard from the Buzzard?
Ayev: I don’t care about that creature of darkness, just your guild
The Buzzard: Thanks for the assist mercenary man
The Buzzard gets up and joins Ayev in the sky
The Buzzard: I think it’s time to end this dynamic duo
Ayev: No arguments here
Nest: This won’t be the end of us
Boone: Didn’t hear no bell
Fight against The Buzzard and Ayev
When The Buzzard is at 20% and Ayev is at 90%, the fight ends as Boone and Nest begin to finally be outgunned by the two, with Ayev firing another energy beam to knock them back
Boone: Well, this sucks
Nest: Heh, we actually had him beat
The Buzzard pulls out the Dark Mirror Shard to gloat about not being beat into unconsciousness by two lone members of the Century Corps
The Buzzard: Looks like you never got your shard, Ayev
Ayev: Yes
The Buzzard: Finish it!
Back in the treeline, Larkin and Lark2n see Ayev ready to fire again, springing them to action
Larkin: Alright, let’s move now
Lark2n: Gotcha
In the blink of an eye, Larkin descends from the treeline and pummels The Buzzard on the head, sending the Dark Mirror shard careening from his grasp and distracting Ayev
Ayev: There’s more of you puny guild members
Nest: Looks like someone arrived just in time
Larkin: Sorry, we’re fashionably late
Ayev: We’re?
As Ayev was distracted, Lark2n rises above the treeline in his goo monster form
Lark2n: Remember Larkin, you owe me for this
Larkin: Aye aye captain
The Buzzard: No…I need my shard
As the Buzzard tries to scramble for the shard and as Ayev tries to fire on the group, Lark2n rushes forward in his liquid monster form and swallows the two whole, carrying them away through the forest and away from the group.
In the chaos, Boone scrambles and picks up the shard before the two villains can come back
Nest: Thanks for the save Larkin
Larkin: No problemo
Boone: We finally have the shard
Larkin: Oh crap we finally have the shard, WE WON
Nest: That’s awesome!
Larkin: We’ve got to back to base right now
Nest: You are right, let’s go
Mission End
It’s around dinner time when the group of Larkin, Nest and Boone arrive back at the Century Corps base camp, where various people are doing tasks, like stocking supplies or combat training. The three of them renter the camp to see a few familiar faces there
Hoard: Oh, you guys are back?
Nest: Well we only told a select few people where we were going, but yeah
Boone: We are certainly back
Larkin: We’re like all the way back
Aiden: What does that even mean?
Larkin: Nevermind
Mygin: Did you learn anything from Lark2n
Larkin: Yeah, some stuff about Department X, but the main thing I learned, is that he needed a friend
Mygin: What?
Nest: He helped us out of a tough situation
Oiyrr: Awesome
Larkin: One could say, he’s a real one
Oiyrr: So did you procure the Dark Mirror Shard
Mygin: Not everything is about the shard
Aiden: They didn’t even go to get the shard, that involves fighting the Buzzard
Mygin: Correct and we don’t have a plan right now
Oiyrr: Well it doesn’t hurt to ask
Boone: Well…
Boone reaches into their armor and pulls out the shard
Boone: Consider it your lucky day
Everyone in the base camp goes over to look at Boone and the Dark Mirror Shard, stirring up commotion
Oiyrr: HOLY SHIT
Hoard: Damn you actually went and got it without us
Boone: Nest and I were taking on the Buzzard by ourselves
Nest: And we were winning, before Ayev showed up and ruined everything
Ba-Bayost: Swag, I knew you had that in you
Nest: Like we were beating the shit out of him
Larkin: I can attest that they were in fact, beating the shit out of him
The commotion gets Lilac, Centus and Olivia to leave the planning room
Lilac: Alright guys what’s all the commotion a-
Lilac’s jaw was so wide open it looked like it was going to fall off of her face upon seeing the Dark Shard
Lilac: HOLY SHIT, HOW DID YOU GET THAT
Boone: We just walked up to him and beat him up
Larkin: Well you beat him up, and I jumped down and dislodged the shard from his grasp with a nasty haymaker
Nest: If creatures of darkness could get brain damage, that definitely gave it brain damage
Centus: Well this certainly changes things
Lilac: Yeah no kidding
Olivia: Alright everybody, we’re heading to the White World ahead of schedule, prepare and get your rest
Nest: Aye aye mam
Everyone began to disperse before going to do their own preparations for tomorrow, this expedition wasn’t going to be easy