Is there a 4th mysterybox option? :^)
Heading towards what you could affectionately call “Crash Site 2 Electric Boogaloo”, but you won’t because this is a serious situation for
serious
people with
serious
consequences. You contemplate if there are other options.
“There’s always another way,” like the sergeant used to say, “if you follow the Core Colony Corps Corporate Citizen Companion Guidebook of Correct Operating Procedure.”
There’s probably advice in that book for every conceivable situation in this inconceivable universe. Shame you don’t have it on you.
But as you’ve said to yourself earlier, it always pays to keep your options open and your feet moving when lives are on the line, and your feet have been moving for quite a long time. Doesn’t seem like the star is any closer to setting, and the trees blow gently in the breeze.
You feel like Christopher Columbus when he discovered ancient Ohio, or Buzz Aldrin taking the first step on the moon’s cratered albedo. As you crest over the small hill you could swear you see something…
…But you hear something instead.
Sorry about the late update everyone. Between monitor problems that suddenly stopped being problems and some doctors visits, I had to get over to the DMV to get some bureaucratic stuff out of the way.
Either way here is the update, and its about to swing into higher gear now.