"If you feel confident enough, you can go with them. I'll be here to end anyone who so much as looks at you the wrong way." Lauren cheerfully said, going prone at the same spot Viktor was in a few moments earlier. Looking through her scope, she couldn't see anything moving in the village. Still, constant surveillance kept people alive.

As Viktor and John took up Nathan's flanks and readied their rifles, the Russian rolled his eyes, "We're looking for other surviving communities in the world. Royal Station wants us to see if Paris' metro system houses any people. And after we check Paris, there's a whole bunch of other cities we need to see about in Europe. This could take years..."

"Heh, we're either going to starve or freeze. I wonder which." John joked. Dark humor was just his thing... The guy meant well.