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and regularly changed her hair color. Currently she was sporting a distinct shade of green. She was the most recent addition to their team, joining a little less than two years ago, but since then, the five of them have stuck together like family.  
    “What did we miss?” Magnus whispered.  
    “Caravan went missing yesterday at 29:30,” S replied. “MegaCORP transport, whole crew disappeared. They were found later…but…umm…not in the same state.”  
    “Someone tried to steal Cron?” Red asked, in an incredulous tone that reflected how difficult the task was. The caravans that transported Cron were taller than buildings, manned by highly trained crew, and nearly impossible to penetrate. Once they were locked for transport, not even the crew responsible for moving them could reopen the seals. There was a time long ago when MegaCORP was regularly threatened by radical groups who opposed the use of Cron or wanted to protest MegaCORP’s extensive web of influence, but more recent security measures and generous buy-outs reduced the company’s enemies to all but a few extremists. There were a few locations in Avalonia that were rich with Cron, among them, a place in the Alloy Desert several hundred tezras south of Echidna City. The extraction plant there was the size of a small polis, the second-largest in Avalonia by output.
    “That’s what makes it so bizarre; someone could’ve stolen Cron, but didn’t. They only went for the crew,” S replied. “Seems like they were disinterested in the Cron itself; they were just looking for people, and the ones they found happened to be transporting Cron.”  
    “What happened to the crew?” Butz asked anxiously.  
    “Attacked?” Magnus guessed. “Maybe it was a political thing. You know how riled some people can get over MegaCORP.”  
    S gulped nervously before beginning her response. “Well it looks like…it looks like they were eaten…”  
    “No!” Butz whispered loudly. “What?!”  
    “Maybe it was a creature or something in the desert; who knows what could be out there? It has to be,” Red replied.  
    “Couldn’t have been,” S answered. “All the vehicles were left perfectly intact, there would’ve been collateral damage or at least displacement in the sand if it was something that could take a MegaCORP crew out. It was done too precisely. Crew was taken out and their…leftovers… were found fifteen tezras away approximately a day later by the Echidna Guard, after an auto distress signal was sent out from the stationary caravan.”  
    “How many?” Butz asked.  
    “Seven in total,” S replied. “Trained crew and everything too, so whatever did it…”
    “Is still out there,” Raven remarked bluntly — finishing S’ sentence and snapping the rest of them out of their awe. “We have a lot of work to do. We still have a field test,” she added curtly, before making her way towards the terminal lifts. Red, Magnus, S, and Butz shared an uneasy look with each other before following her, unable to shake off their foreboding feelings. Red glanced back at the screens one last time before stepping onto the lift, catching an image of what looked like a gruesome collection of limbs and bones in a net. Must’ve been what they found he thought to himself.  
    At the edge of the lift, Butz decided to have a go at Linx one more time, attempting to catch the cat off guard, but fell prey to the cat’s reflexes once more.  
    “You clearly just don’t know anything about cats, do you?” S remarked matter-of-factly. “You just have to offer them food.” She took an elk pop from her pocket and held it towards Linx, offering the treat in a pampering voice. The cat looked at her in the eye as she pleaded with it, showing no interest. After a while, she blushed and withdrew her hand, trying to pretend the exchange never happened.  
    “Marvelous!” Butz screamed, as Magnus and Red laughed along. The exchange helped lighten the mood as