As Hobnob and his 2 remaining crew members followed Jex, Hobnob activated the thermal vision on his goggles and looked in the direction of the bandits. "From what I can see, the bandits are in full retreat" Hobnob said "I can see no other threatening heat signatures nearby, so we have nothing to worry about at the moment unless something that doesn't produce heat is lying in wait for us".

Having said that, Hobnob looked at Jex. If it weren't for the small amount of heat produced by his flame reserves, the cold-blooded Jex would have been completely invisible in Hobnob's thermal vision. But even with the heat reserves, Jex was still hard to see. "Perhaps I should work on a vision for my goggles that picks up on the lack of heat rather than the presence of it" Hobnob said to himself as he looked back at the heat signatures of the fleeing bandits "Certainly sounds like something to think about".