The Quarry

[Rage Menelas]

[font=Lucida Sans Unicode]It was hard for Quang to determine whether the man was more frozen or more asphyxiated by the time he got down to him. Either way he was a deathly shade of blue. Hei'a 12 was not what you would call a cozy place for humanoids. If the twenty below temperatures didn't get you, the atmosphere would. There was simply not enough of the right kind of air to breath.

Kneeling by the nude man, he threw off his utility pack. Rummaging around within it he found a mask, which he promptly secured over the stricken man's nose and mouth. Now he drove his hand back into the pack, found the ever-present survival webbing there. Yanking it out, he began wrapping the man in this clinging medical net, bundling him up as tightly as he could until he resembled an Egyptian mummy. Then he strapped an environment belt around the entire bundle and activated it. This would counterbalance the effects of the hostile environment, warm up the webbing, put the patient into a mild stasis.

That accomplished he stood up and cast about furtively for any signs that he had been discovered. Satisfied that he had not been, he tossed the half frozen man over his shoulder and began to work his way back up the icy slope. If he didn't get him back to Pam-sae quickly the man would more than likely die.