When the quake ended, Oscar wiggled out of Athena's amazingly tight grip on his ankle, and wiped off some of the fallen leaves and dirt that had clung to him during his reckless dive. He adjusted the straps of the pack on his back; he had never thought to drop it, because the precious seconds it could have taken him would have been seconds he wasn't spending trying to rescue his teammate, though it seemed that was all for nothing. Not that he cared, he was just glad they were all in one piece. The single-shot laser rifle had bounced... Somewhere, he was not entirely confident if it had fallen into the crevice, but he would collect it again when they had taken a full status report.<br/><br/>Wiping the sweat off his forehead, he sighed. "That was no coincidence. There were better odds of a shark attack, this far away from the ocean, than a concentrated earthquake that springs up right beneath our feet and opens up a very convenient, bottomless crevice."