Nari had been perched at a desk staring at her computer screen for the past week, Hye never far from her side. Despite feeling horribly out of place at first among hardened men and tough fighters, she was finding her skillset to come in more useful to the effort than she originally thought. Though they were tucked back deep in the mountains, she had managed to set up connection to her laptop. Tapping phone lines, hacking into low level security systems, and the like were all things she found herself very capable of doing. 

In this particular instance, her SUV had come in quite handy. Joe, Dan, Ben, and his brother Preston were doing… Something. They hadn’t really given her too many details, but judging by the way they were armed and the cash, it wasn’t good. Something about a KGB operative. She didn’t ask, she didn’t really want to know. So, she had driven them out to the location given in silence, Hye curled up in the trunk, and parked in the abandoned yard where the trade would be performed. After they had all exited the SUV, Hye immediately jumped into the passenger seat at her side, as she had been instructed to remain in the car. He bumped her arm with a wet black nose and she smiled and reached over to give him a scratch behind the ears, all the while eyeing the scene before her. 

For a while, all she could hear was muffled speech and watch the men’s expressions, and no one seemed too happy. However, she hadn’t been expecting what happened next. She watched in wide eyed horror as men started to fall and gunshots rent the air, blood pooling on the dusty earth, the insides of a man’s head now spattered across the ground. The dog at her side began to bark and growl when the shots thundered around the clearing, standing on the worn leather seat with hackles raised. She instinctively reach out and placed a hand on his back, bidding him to hush, unable to tear her gaze away from the scene that had just unfolded before her. It was over as soon as it had started, and now the men seemed to be discussing what was to be done next.    

She wasn’t in the business of killing, she didn’t even know how to shoot a gun. With the way things were going as of late, she was positive that would soon change, but for now, she was perfectly content being a driver and staying behind the scenes. There was no way she could take a human life, even if they were an enemy of the US. Better to leave that up to those who could actually pull the trigger, especially after witnessing three men die right before her eyes. The closest thing she had seen to someone actually being killed was on TV, she had never been exposed to this kind of violence until now. 

[i][color=BDA0CB]Guess I’ll have to get used to it,[/color][/i] she thought to herself, trying to steel her nerves and calm her breathing, turning her attention to the canine now looking to her for comfort, leaning his head toward her with ears pinned back. The last thing she wanted was to be a shaky mess when they piled back in the SUV; she didn’t want to appear weak. There was no telling how long this war would last, and honestly, she just wanted to find her family and make sure they were okay, but for now, it was too dangerous to go back. Hye placed his two front paws on the center console so that she could better reach him, giving him one last pat before pointing at the back of the vehicle with a short command delivered in Korean. He hesitated before obeying, hopping back into the trunk, but resting his chin on the back of the seat so that he could peer into the front. Nari faced forward again and exhaled quietly, both hands on the steering wheel as she waited for the group to return to the car.