<strong>Semyon Prudius</strong><br/><br/>Leonard Cohen could stop waiting - the miracle had arrived. The flight ended, and Semyon had not murdered each and every member of the Chinook's crew. It was not that he was in some way lacking. He had the way: the various weapons and pieces of equipment brought along from the armoury, in addition to various things on the helicopter itself that would serve as an implement of wanton destruction of human flesh. He had the will: Semyon was not a man to hesitate or shy away from taking human life. He had the time: the interminable duration of the flight. And yet, when they touched down, Semyon disembarked like a professional operator. The Russian had been through worse, obviously. The Russian winter was a crueler mistress. Siberia's warmest embrace still ineffably harsher. But there was a certain pride that a person could derive from suffering through those, a certain nobility in enduring silently those hardships. This was simply an indignity without upside. And Semyon enjoyed<em>300</em>, but after this, his special edition DVD that had come in a metal case was probably going to be put away, out of sight and hopefully out of mind because of its association with this trip.<br/><br/>As the helicopter flew away, Semyon imagined behind cold blue eyes that it erupted into a ball of fire and consumed each member of the crew in conflagration. In Semyon's mind, each of the members of the Chinook crew died in agony and unmourned, and any next of kin was denied life insurance or benefits by an uncaring bureaucracy that informed each regretfully that the flight crew had, in their individual unique ways, made a crucial error in filling out paperwork and thus made each next of kin ineligible to receive anything. This pleasant dream gave Semyon the small spark of joy needed to carry on.<br/><br/>In the technical, Semyon surveyed the information that Ryder relayed with thorough dispassion. "Carry on, Ryder." The Russian said. "Drive at liberty, Nichole." He said to the other member of the team.