We used to think they were coming for us, that they'd track us down from our last checkpoint and we'd be back as base camp by the end of the week. Now five months down the line we've come to accept our abandonment and started to make our shelter into something more permanent, just in case they've ditched us altogether.
Admittedly we wouldn't be the first, I mean we're Team 8 for Christ's sake. We'd all heard the rumoured ends of the others, we just never thought we'd be added to that list - let alone that everything would add up and point to deliberate sabotage.
We knew as soon as we stumbled upon the remains of Team 5. Their camp was a little less advanced that ours, far less focused on protection far more focused on comfort - a mistake we couldn't afford to repeat. Every day we've been going farther and farther afield, finding the old camps and figuring out where they went wrong.
We won't be the last to be left for dead but we'll be the first to survive.
Every day we bide our time and plan our way back to base camp. They won't be expecting us, that much is clear. We've not seen or heard any kind of recon drone, seems they're so confident we're already dead that they've probably assigned the next team and begun their training.
It's when base camp is at its most vulnerable. When all the upper staff members are too busy babysitting to pay much attention to their parameters, let alone the emergency exits they showed us on day 1 of our training.
It'd be so easy to just slip back inside and slit their throats while they slept, saving the newest team from our current predicament.
We'd be the heroes.
Admittedly we wouldn't be the first, I mean we're Team 8 for Christ's sake. We'd all heard the rumoured ends of the others, we just never thought we'd be added to that list - let alone that everything would add up and point to deliberate sabotage.
We knew as soon as we stumbled upon the remains of Team 5. Their camp was a little less advanced that ours, far less focused on protection far more focused on comfort - a mistake we couldn't afford to repeat. Every day we've been going farther and farther afield, finding the old camps and figuring out where they went wrong.
We won't be the last to be left for dead but we'll be the first to survive.
Every day we bide our time and plan our way back to base camp. They won't be expecting us, that much is clear. We've not seen or heard any kind of recon drone, seems they're so confident we're already dead that they've probably assigned the next team and begun their training.
It's when base camp is at its most vulnerable. When all the upper staff members are too busy babysitting to pay much attention to their parameters, let alone the emergency exits they showed us on day 1 of our training.
It'd be so easy to just slip back inside and slit their throats while they slept, saving the newest team from our current predicament.
We'd be the heroes.
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