16 INTERESTING WAS A WAY of putting it. The big question of course was what was the point of this strange performance, and did no one notice that a bunch of soldiers had just been eaten by something that lived under the ice? What were they even doing there? Not that any of us could answer those questions. We decided that we had seen enough, and needed to digest what we had seen and look at all the data that the drone had collected. We needed a plan and we needed to make our snowshoes before we could venture out of the craft. So we shut the door, let warm air flood back into the cargo hold and took off all our winter gear again. It felt a bit ridiculous, not having gone anywhere, but we had definitely needed the warm clothes, because my feet and hands were as cold as ice. Thayu’s chee

