Erich's conversation with Maho and Walter ended after a few short comments before he stepped aside, letting the crippled 'mechwarrior and the petite Kuritan talk, or bump uglies, or whatever those two did when not driving him up the wall for a variety of reasons. Snuffing his Cigar across the unpainted steel of the Shadow Hawk's transport cradle, the officer easily climbed up the scaffold, looking over the flanks and back of the 55-ton machine, not surprised to see that the paint had been stripped to bare metal across the jump jet venturi low in the medium's back, the only real evidence of the extreme-range PPC blast that had removed the elemental that had attacked Miyoko earlier that day.<br/><br/>Reaching the level of the 'mech's head, he knocked on the hatch at the back of the 'mech's 'skull' "Hey. Kiddo. You awake in there, or no?"