Grash who had been grinding his teeth as they walked finally cracked and turned around violently grabbing hold of keal by the waist, lifting his immense bulk right into the air he took one massive step forwards and did the same to Beth "Now, you two, enough! we are a team, the competition will be with the battle-crazed swarm." He placed them both down with two loud thumps as they rejoined the earth.
"I'm not going to make you kiss and make up but if I hear one more word out of either of you I'll make sure you never talk again."
Turning around once more he continued walking, not caring how pride-hurt the two were. After a few minutes they finally emerged into the dim light, was this a natural clearing? had the tribes cleared it, no. Grash studied the clearing, the trees on the opposing side however hard it was to tell with their colour seemed charred, it was a crater, looking down into it he saw the burnt metallic debris, it was the ship alright.
Crouching at the edge of the tree line he reached over his shoulder and grabbed his rifle, pushing a small switch down the barrel and stock extended in either direction and the scope popped out of the main body of the thing. He scanned the crater, then the tree-line, nothing. He was about to give the word to move forwards when he saw something move down below, he focused on it, it was a single kraxed, sifting through the metal, still salvaging, with a light tap to the inside of the grip the weapon fired sending a red hot slug straight through the things head. "Ok, now we go, try and find the black box, we need to find out what happened to it, Beth, if you can stay above, maintain watch from an aerial position in the middle of the clearing, watch the trees, rest of you with me." he said as he made his way down the ash covered slope.
