by SALSAlys » Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:25 pm
Tanake frowned slightly, then rapped the back of her knuckles against the door, as if measuring the sound they gave.
"....hold on. Not yet. I want to get the rest of the crew to have supplies and things ready for moving out. I heard SOMETHING out there, something that was speaking to us without words— and I want to find out what the hell it is. This whole sequence of events seems hard to swallow."
Tanake frowned again.
"All right. I want you to see if you can find out what the surroundings are like. The cockpit should have a better view, or if not, I think that you can figure out something else. Me, I'm going to get Edmund to tell the rest of the crew to pack up their things." With that, she turned and began walking back, evidently trusting Derrik to use his own initiative to come up with results.
* * *
Tanake went back to Edmund, but paused when she saw him praying. Her face softened slightly, waiting for him to finish.
Praying.... been so long since I've done that, she mused to herself before shaking her head slightly.
When the scout finished and looked up, she spoke briskly.
"I want you to hunt down the rest of the crew and tell them to pack their things up. We need everything we can carry, and probably a few things we can't. That includes weaponry, food, tents, maybe even some of the tool kits, the other radios if we can get them to work, over half a million things I'm going to forget to mention.... and see how much the engineers can fix up." Tanake rapped the mouthpiece of her intercom unit in demonstration of the silence. "This is on the fritz, and I expect a lot of our equipment to be in the same condition."