The past few hours might have even been considered pleasant. The ‘Mech had warmed up after the trying affair that was taking off one’s clothes and putting on the cooling vest that had been stored in that cold cockpit for a week. Like getting into cold boots in the morning, except worse. She knew it wouldn’t last, that the pendulum was about to swing over to the other side in a matter of minutes. From chilly through the midpoint of mildly toasty to… well, a fighting BattleMech. Remembering the Colonel’s words about the weather forcing enemy air assets low and into range, she called up the ammo management system and set the missile racks to feed into the upper LRM 10 launcher, then set it to a separate weapons group and switched the 15 and the other 10 to safe to avoid accidentally pulling their triggers out of habit. She doubted anyone would fly in this fog, but it would probably clear up soon.

As they approached, she kept an eye on the patrol, paying extra attention to the Strikers. [color=76D0FF]”Gigs here. Master arm on, ready to rumble. Knight One, I take it the Colonel’s order to keep LRMs for AA duty stands?”[/color] She checked in with Ramrod, keeping her fingers well away from triggers to avoid a negligent discharge. [color=76D0FF]”And if you figured out a way to do this without shooting at poor truck drivers, now’s the time to share.”[/color] Despite the chafing between their viewpoints, Marit agreed that shooting at people wasn’t ideal, even if both women would’ve probably said the other one thought so for the [i]wrong[/i] reasons. Now waiting for instructions, she returned to her usual method of killing time, picking up where she left off.

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“Warriors of the northern lands; Madness forged into our hearts; Shields be shattered, arms of steel; Let the axes fly with fury.
Raging thunder shakes the skies; The Wrath of battle stains our minds; Rage of vengeful kings of war; Fearless sons and daughters fall.”
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She sang quietly to herself, blissfully unaware her push to talk had stuck open.