[There's a long hesitation here; even though it's been eating at him ever since he woke up in the snow, he's more or less kept the situation back home to himself. There's no point in dwelling on something he couldn't fix at the moment.
Not that it makes it any easier to sleep at night.
He weighs his answer before speaking again.]
They've found a way to erase their weakness to sunlight. And over half my crew is out of commission--including one of them being captured, and another one about to...die from the infection. I've got maybe eight hours to come up with something to stop what's going on and get what's left of my team out.
[There, that doesn't sound too bad, right? Mind you, he's leaving out the fact that the captive will be used in the ritual to take away the weakness to sunlight...and that Derek had been on the way in to kill the other team member before the infection could turn her. That...didn't really need to be relayed, although the weight of that knowledge probably shows in his voice and the restless twitch of his wings.]
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Not that it makes it any easier to sleep at night.
He weighs his answer before speaking again.]
They've found a way to erase their weakness to sunlight. And over half my crew is out of commission--including one of them being captured, and another one about to...die from the infection. I've got maybe eight hours to come up with something to stop what's going on and get what's left of my team out.
[There, that doesn't sound too bad, right? Mind you, he's leaving out the fact that the captive will be used in the ritual to take away the weakness to sunlight...and that Derek had been on the way in to kill the other team member before the infection could turn her. That...didn't really need to be relayed, although the weight of that knowledge probably shows in his voice and the restless twitch of his wings.]