As the doors lowered South looked around the artificial world, taking it all in. As they disembarked and moved into squads she made sure not to look at North, doing her best to hold her nerve. Still, when Carolina suddenly spoke to her she jumped, having been off in her own world for a moment. She was confused, at first, as to how he knew this but eventually decided to discard it. If he wanted to tell her then he would. Then again it could have been him guessing from her body language. She was sure she wasn’t doing the best job at hiding it.

After a few moments of contemplation she eventually nodded, very slightly before replying. “Yeah. We’ll talk about it later.” Her words were short as Alaska spoke to her and smiled, despite her helmet. “He’s fine.” She assured her, going back to a global channel. Despite the fact that he was as protective as he was coming across he wasn’t nearly as serious as he was pretending to be. She stood up and looked over to Cal, glad for once to have the helmet hiding her emotions. She was doing an okay job at keeping her voice steady but her eyes would give away her fear in an instant.


North moved over to Iowa, scanning the skyline and nodding in acknowledgement of the statement. “Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. I’ll head up there and get ready, you guys should hold off moving until you have significant cover, I should be able to warn you early about any patrols or guards headed your way, but these buildings are going to get in my way, I’ll have to move around to keep you in sight.” He said, more talking to himself than anyone else as he moved off, now in full mission mentality. It was an easy state for him, sometimes he preferred being in this state, the alertness and the slight buzz you got off knowing you’re in artificial danger.