And two of them who sound particularly unimpressed at that fact. It's little comfort to know someone else was unprepared; in fact, this is exactly what his critics say about him, that he lets optimism get in the way of being well-prepared. He's always said it wasn't the case.
Dylan steps up beside Irian, peering through the dust towards the passageway she'd just begun to clear. He's pretty sure he hasn't been that way previously on the tour, but he can't tell for certain; his sense of direction has always been better with navigational equipment around than without it.
"They'll be clear," he says, though he has no actual evidence to prove that. "We're not going to die down here."
There's an edge in his voice in that moment, just in the last sentence, of the combination of optimism and fierce determination to shape the world into the shape it should take that's driven everything he's done since he found himself being pulled out of a black hole and into a future he could never have imagined.
He's just not going to consider it.
Still, best to get as much cleared as possible; this passage, at least, doesn't look too badly blocked and he's pretty sure some of the others from the group were up ahead. They might well be there.
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And two of them who sound particularly unimpressed at that fact. It's little comfort to know someone else was unprepared; in fact, this is exactly what his critics say about him, that he lets optimism get in the way of being well-prepared. He's always said it wasn't the case.
Dylan steps up beside Irian, peering through the dust towards the passageway she'd just begun to clear. He's pretty sure he hasn't been that way previously on the tour, but he can't tell for certain; his sense of direction has always been better with navigational equipment around than without it.
"They'll be clear," he says, though he has no actual evidence to prove that. "We're not going to die down here."
There's an edge in his voice in that moment, just in the last sentence, of the combination of optimism and fierce determination to shape the world into the shape it should take that's driven everything he's done since he found himself being pulled out of a black hole and into a future he could never have imagined.
He's just not going to consider it.
Still, best to get as much cleared as possible; this passage, at least, doesn't look too badly blocked and he's pretty sure some of the others from the group were up ahead. They might well be there.