She had no loyalty to the job; just an itching curiosity that tingled like a sixth sense. It was what led Aibhlinn to China and her discovery of the lost temple hidden within the Five Sacred Mountains. The findings were stated to be the ‘greatest unearthed secret of our time’, and promised to throw her career back into the spotlight, producing scholarships, fundraising and sponsors that would promise no shortages for at least a decade. That had been before the Chinese government decided to slander her name, marking her as a ‘grave robber’ while being charged with crimes that had been committed only in self defense. She had been mistaken in assuming that all Chinese knew some form of martial arts or another, but those with scrapes and bruises (and a few broken ribs and noses) got what they had coming.<br/><br/>Alaska had been a hopeless investigation from the start; funds were meager, equipment had been minimal at best, and the only thing that came into fruition was her skill at running across the ice when she had startled a walrus, and that savage 20,000 kilogram beast gave chase. Another shining moment in the life of Professor Aibhlinn Isold Bannon.<br/><br/>Now here she was with a piece of technology in her hand, dressed in the provided cold-as-fuck gear she had grown to love and hate, blankets piled over her head and draping over her form in an attempt to remain relatively comfortable. At least there wasn’t ice-spray hitting her face. At least there weren’t pissed-off ice-fiends sniffing at her tent, or stealing their food and pissing all over the place. At least she was thousands of feet off the surface of the ocean, bouncing around like one of them crazy beans she saw while in Mexico, hoping that the next lurch would disrupt the woman from puking all over place by forcing her to swallow it all down.<br/><br/>Another shining moment in the life of Professor Aibhlinn Isold Bannon…<br/><br/>“Nábac seo…” Another bump, this one caused her to grow warm as nausea threatened to test the casing of the MOBA. Apparently, it promised a long battery life even in the harsh climate of Antarctica. Batteries were notorious for shorting out in frigid temperatures; it was a hardship they faced in icy-wasteland of Alaska. She didn’t hold much faith in it. In fact, she was feeling downright miserable and settled with pushing aside researching and re-reading the provided information on the mobile, and took to distracting herself with a new project. Maybe this thing had Fruit Ninja…