<span style="color: #4da6ff">"Your advice, miss Maia, is wholeheartedly received. I will do so on the next occasion mister Berrac makes such brazen suggestions. And I am afraid it is the only logical assumption regarding the fate of mister Zero. He was the only one outside the shelter when the felines attacked and he is the only one that has yet to return. Given the documentation on the felines, the assumption turns into grim certainty. If I am wrong, however, I will allow mister Zero to correct me with his cybernetic enhancement."</span>Speaker responded to Maia and rubbed his elongated temples.<br/><br/>Evy's short mention of the lack of ingredients added a twinge of frustration on the Entirassi's already strained mind but her sudden interruption and change of expression made Speaker turn and follow the AI's movements. The next thing she said hit him harder than anything Zero could have done. Their ship had been attacked? By whom? Why? What possible reason could anyone have to strike at a scientific expedition craft? Speaker's mind whirled and his pigmentation lightened, his animal instincts on the verge of taking control. No, no, no, no, NO! He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, regaining some measure of composure.<br/><br/><span style="color: #4da6ff">"Dire news indeed. And it leaves us with no option other than to move forward. This place is not safe for us, even if it is peaceful for now. Evy, can you contact mister Berrac? Tell him we are moving out and will meet with the thr... four of them on the way. Then the good stranger could guide us to wherever it was he came from. I can anticipate your doubts to this but it is all we can rely on. That and the fact he did not raise his weapon to us when we met."</span>Speaker pointedly looked at Maia and Issy, then at Juleean, Alicia and Kula.<span style="color: #4da6ff">"We should see if there are any supplies we can easily carry along and be on our way. What or who attacked the ship is only eight hours behind us, and if they know the planet better and can get around faster than we can... "</span>he stopped his sentence and frowned, looking away for a moment before getting up. What he left unspoken would be easy for the others to guess, or fell, and he hoped it would drive them to hurry up.<br/><br/>Speaker picked up a blanket of the ones in the camp site and draped it around his narrow shoulders as he moved to the tree hollow's edge to look around and take a step out.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>