Shadows of JiangXi

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Enrico cracked open an eye as he was shaken awake, looking up into Pasha's face, standing over him with a mug of coffee.

"My watch already?" he asked rubbing his face and clambering out of his bunk, pulling on a thermal fleece and taking the coffee, trying to shake off the fog of sleep that was like cotton wool in his head.

"We lost one," Pasha said as he followed Alvarez up into the cockpit.

Slipping into the pilot's seat, Alvarez checked the thermal scans, confirming that there were, indeed, one missing.

"What are these three?" he pointed to three new heat signatures not bearing recognition tags.

"They could be bandits, or some of our ground troopers," Pasha answered. "Though I am sure this one," he tapped the screen. "Killed our man."

"Bandit then," Enrico presumed.

"Yeah, but they gave him hell for it. Explosions from Miller's signal, and then this one..." he tapped the other unknown signal. "He opened fire."

"Well we should assume that's one of our ground pounders then," Enrico presumed. Entering data onto the TAC system. Identifying the Bandit and the Coalition soldier. "We still have this one, over in the village near to Warner's house..." he pointed. "Couple of the nuggets heading that way."

"We're still getting calls from regional HQ," Pasha noted. "Still garbled, the storm is very bad over their position... we still can't land there."

"Well it's going to have to wait," Enrico concluded. "I'm not landing the Social Credit in the middle of an anomaly storm. We're going to maintain our altitude and keep overwatch for now."

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