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"I'm fine." the wolf answers. For now, his ice armor was doing a good enough job keeping him cool.

"You know, there might be a back way in." Drake says. "Caverns and Canyons like this often have dozens o' tunnels leading everywhere. Chances are, there may be one that can be a backdoor inside."

Frost contemplates both suggestions for a moment. "That backdoor isn't helpful to us if we don't know where it is." he points out to Drake before turning to Lauvrenty. "And I didn't see any Hielo soldiers in the compound. All of them are Rivak's forces. You would be caught immediately if you tried that."

Drake continues looking through the binoculars. "Good point. . ." he continues thinking. "Knowing this desert, a sandstorm's due to arrive in a few hours, before sunset. Maybe we can use the storm as cover."

Frost nods. "Since visibility will be hindered, we can probably risk climbing down the rock face from above."

"And I can create stone platforms to lower us down faster." Drake adds. "Faster and safer than freeclimbing."

Frost continues thinking for a few moments before turning to Lauvrenty. "Although they won't believe a Hielo soldier bringing in prisoners, they might believe you if you're disguised as one of them."

"How are we going to manage that?" Drake asks. "Kill a patrol and take their uniforms?"

"No. Patrols constantly radio in status reports. If we kill them, then the base will go on high alert once they reali-"

"Wait, wait!" Drake says quickly. "Look at this." he hands Frost the binoculars.

As Frost looks through them, he sees a large vehicle pulling into the camp. It looked similar to the vehicles used for traversing icy terrain, but heavily modified to cope with the desert environment. A hatch on the back opens, and soldiers start ushering out a small group of people at gunpoint.

"Are those. . . Luft tribu?" Drake asks.