"I thought we might get a shower, this long planet-side. But it seems the fates had other plans for us." He smiled, quietly rueful as he watched her crawl across the ceiling.

"How exactly are you managing that? Is it some sort of technology?"

He ditched his backpack after a moments hesitation, not wanting to leave it behind but capable of seeing the logic of doing so, keeping the sensors in a leg bag. "You know what I don't want to happen? That thing to go off and us to still have these in our pockets."

His head jerked to the side when smoke started billowing out of the elevator, keeping himself still when people started shouting and running towards it. He waited until the hall was clear again before he spoke, sirens blaring overhead as the smoke detector reacted. A recorded and creepily robotic voice started issuing evacuation orders.

"...sometimes, I think they should really go over what exactly 'covert operations' means before sending someone to preform one..."