"Well, i'm sure you'll do better on the way down than I will!" Cassandra offered the other woman one of her million dollar smiles, as her father used to call them when she was younger. She had shoved her notes away as quickly as possible, without looking suspicious -- immediately regretting it. The sound of her notes being smashed up within her bag brought on a cringe that she could barely hide. She did though, mainly because the other woman seemed positively transfixed by the ravine below. Which, as Cassandra would find out in a few minutes, she should be.<br/><br/>"Yeah, i've never seen anything like it!" She exclaimed, for once on this trip, being completely honest with one of her fellow travelers. "Yeah, if it's really unique, maybe we'll have something to tell the world, stop those dozers for good!" Maybe she was laying it on a little thick, but it was true enough. Far too many places in the United States alone had been protected by some rare species of frog or weed for her tastes, but people that belonged to organizations like SMAKtW ate that sort of shit up. If nothing else, it would certainly keep the other woman highly motivated to look on their own, so she could make as much use of whatever they found as she could before it impacted their presence here...<br/><br/>She watched the other woman rappel down the sheer face, biting her lip the entire time in angst. If something happened on her way down...there wasn't much Cassandra could do...So, she just hoped that nothing did happen. Of course, the other woman made it down like a pro, sure handed and nimble as a spider monkey. Of course, it helped that the other woman had a modicum of grace and was rather thin to boot. Cassandra tried to push those jealous thoughts aside...it wasn't the other woman's fault how she was born, or how Cassandra wasn't.<br/><br/>When it became her turn, her heart immediately fluttered a bit. Her stomach may have done flip flops while she watched the other woman on her way down, but it seemed to jump up into her throat and then fall cleanly from her - or at least that's how it felt once it became obvious that it was her turn next, and that she could quit worrying about her better for the time being.<br/><br/>As she went about fixing herself up to the harness, she lost track of what the other woman was saying for the most part. From all the way down there, it was hard to hear her as it was. When she turned around and wasn't looking at her any more, she couldn't hear any details, only that the other woman was actually talking. She made her way down quickly, but in a jarring fashion. She swung about too much, and a couple of times she lost a modicum of the control she had on the way down, sliding down a bit more than she should've, and landing harder than she had wanted to. Amazingly enough, she ended up at the bottom of the ravine unscathed...though she was pretty sure she came dangerously close to peeing herself several times on the way down.<br/><br/>By the time she had struggled down though, the other woman was walking about - snapping pictures already. "What is it you see?" Cassandra asked in genuine curiosity. "You're right, this is the most unique ecosystem i've ever seen." Wow, she definitely pulled that one out of her ass. Though, that was true enough. "Be careful though, don't get too close to any of the plants. If we've never seen it before, it could certainly be poisonous!" She caught up to the other girl, and placed her hand gently on the other woman's arm, as if to hold her back - but without any of the intent or physicality behind actually doing so. "How do you think we should proceed?"