Gambit (IC)

Zal-Tek followed Whitefire and Dee, but he too stopped outside the tent. Something was very wrong here. He felt that he should leave Whitefire to whatever she was doing, so, after a moment of looking at the commander and Dee, he walked a short distsnce away. He stopped, facing away from the tent, where he could see most of the camp, and stared.

"I apologize," he mumbled in an unrecognizable language, "this deed is not mine to apologize for, but I shall anyway. May you find rest..." He cut off, unsure how to end the sentence in such a foreign place, then finished, "wherever you may go."

Nuke followed them back,saying nothing, just considering things. He still suspected that Whitefire's family wasn't really dead, and this was an illusion. All the same it did seem rather disconcerting. Or it would've been if Nuke hadn't had to deal with the Spinehk so much....
He rose up into the air until he could clear the wall, turned and flew off down the path where it continued on the other side of the base.

Nuke arrived at a dark swamp. He detected his flight being negated, and teleporting wasn't working either. Well I suppose I do fly a lot, time to trudge through it he thought to himself. He lowered himself down and started slogging through the swamp, and swimming in a few places. He thought back amusedly on his beaver origins.

Zal-Tek, who had not been very far away, poked his head through the door above the commander.  There was a quiet growl.  He looked at the inside of the tent, taking it all in with a great deal of suspicion, before saying, "violence is the easy option, and this is why I stay away from it."

He continued looking around for a moment, contemplating.  "We should probably catch up to Nuke," he said, unusually level, "if only because I worry what he may be doing, now."

Meanwhile, Nuke continued to slog through the swamp. While most beings that didn't normally dwell in swamps might have found this an unpleasant process, he was in a good mood. Especially now that he was on his way without the reptile's and feline's presences.
He continued walking for a little while, until he came to the edge of the swamp.....but unfortunately this was the same shore he had started from. Odd, I know I headed away from the base, and I never get messed up he thought. Deciding to try again, he headed away from the shore again, running this time, and ended up in the same spot.
Realizing that he couldn't seem to progress on, Nuke decided to return to the others, at least for now.

About now Nuke jumped over the exterior wall to the compound and approached the tent they were in. Despite having slogged through a swamp, he was dry as a bone and clean.

Zal-Tek looked at Whitefire.  "I disagree," he said, "I would say you have more right than any of us to decide."

At that point, he noticed Nuke approaching, and spun around to face him.  "Welcome back," he spat, "come to see what you've done, or just found something you can't get past?"  He seriously doubted Nuke would have returned for any friendly reason, he simply didn't care enough.  Granted he also probably didn't care enough to be all that interested in watching people suffer, either, but Zal-Tek had a great amount of faith in the power of snarky comments, or at least the fun of them.

"Is your tongue the only useful thing on your body? Because all you ever seem to do is jabber." answered Nuke calmly, his politeness more or less depleted towards Zal-Tek. "But in answer to his question, I think I might have another question for you" he said, looking at the commander.

Nuke raised his eyebrow at Whitefire's outburst. "Well if you wish to get moving, perhaps you should listen to what I have to say then." He shifted his gaze to the commander, "There is a swamp beyond her that seem to be impassible. I think you might know how to navigate it" he said, his brown eyes locking with the human's.

Zal-Tek rolled his eyes, "right, fine, impassible," he said, "What is there a wall?" And did you try blowing it up, he added to himself, rather tired of Nuke's stupid answers. Besides, they hadn't gotten anything done that way, and like it or not, whatever it was that had brought them there seemed to want them together. He'd just keep at it until he could go home, and then forget all about it. Probably. Hopefully.

Idly, he wondered where Whitefire was going, and if she, too, was going to get lost. Maybe he should have told her what Até had told him... Her and Dee, perhaps. Not Nuke, and not just because he didn't like him. He suspected that if Nuke knew something was watching him, he would assume the entire world was an illusion or something, and blow everything up trying to get to whatever it was. That was just bad for everyone.