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been fully
charged and if she wandered around too much she’d end up finishing this hunt on
foot. That was another facepalm moment that she was glad she spotted before
it’d bitch-slapped her…and she assumed there were probably many more coming her
way with equal subtlety.
    It was becoming clear this mission wasn’t about
overcoming obvious challenges, but rather in picking up on the small ones that
could easily go unnoticed. Warning herself to be extra observant, Jyra took off
back up through the treetops then accelerated heavily until she could feel the
tug of the air against her helmet and torso and held that velocity. The bike
could go faster, but the last thing she wanted was to get knocked off it by the
turbulence and fall down through the forest only to go on a multiple mile hunt
for the bike that would cut thrust and coast to a stop when her hands left the
controls.
    And anti- grav craft had a
tendency to coast a really long ways before coming to a stop…not to mention
this bike didn’t have a homing beacon, so all around it was better to keep it
fast, but not too fast.
    Jyra got through three more locations before calling
it quits and setting up camp. Each was different, with one going so far as to
have her climbing through the snow in the treetops to find a case that had a
vague beacon that was highlighting a region rather than a point. It took her
more than two hours to find it, and had she not been wearing armor she would
have been frozen stiff by that point crawling across branches that held the
snow aloft and even having to dig tunnels through some of the deeper sections.
    She fell four times, counting on a branch to be there
then finding a way to slip through where she thought her body would catch. If
there was an easy way to find that one she missed it entirely and ended up
slipping into her blanket sleeve more frustrated than tired. In each of the
boxes, though, there were bits and pieces of supplies, which gave her the
impression that this mission was going to last long beyond this current
scavenger hunt.
    Taking that into consideration she decided to pull
back on her pace a bit and work through the upcoming waypoints with a bit of
ease rather than urgency. Knowing that these challenges were more brain oriented
than combat, she told herself to take the advantage of the lack of schedule and
work in some down time…else she’d go crazy with frustration at not being able
to find these damn boxes in any predictable manner.
    She’d gotten in a brief workout before heading to
sleep, going for a run outside of armor and doing some flexibility drills out
in the snow as long as she could stand the cold, then warming up inside and
doing some mediation work to further cleanse her mind enough that she could get
to sleep without running things through her head nonstop. Without the long runs
to drain her of energy she needed the release of the workouts, not to mention
to maintain her fitness levels, which were going to take a significant hit if
this mission dragged on as it was with her riding the speeder and not doing
much more than looking around and small activities like digging and crawling.
    Tomorrow…which would actually occur at night…she was
going to start with a workout then head off to the next waypoint, hopefully do
three or four then set up camp again and rest/train for a few more hours and
continue splitting it up in that fashion going forward. If she tried to plan
out a timetable going forward she was going to get frustrated, for these
waypoints were meant to keep things unpredictable.
    In order to counter that she had to let go of
expectations and just play it out as events progressed. Not what she wanted to
do initially, thinking of this mission as partially a race, but an Arc Commando
had to adapt more than other soldiers, and to be prudent she stopped assuming
there would be a finish to this mission and prepared herself for an unending
one…which meant she had to sustain herself through