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being found frozen solid and dead! What if temperatures hit far
lower than had been recorded, with there being no recorded proof or
witnesses left alive!
    The snow
landscape was untouched by humans everywhere, and at times empty
and hollow with no sound, and had a deep haunting silence that he
had only heard before in thick winter snow landscapes. It reminded
him of another world! An empty lost world absence of life with
faint mists surrounding regions.
    What was
shocking was how easily they had trapped them, and he was unsure if
they even knew how they could avoid any large amount of deaths. If
only they had taken a small landing airplane , and kept
it there, but they could not have traveled there with the amount of
soldiers and at that distance!
    There was
nothing to recognize anywhere, and he watched some of the men
attempt to use communication devices to the ice station, and when
they failed they tried to see if there was anything to pick up on
it!
    Another problem
was that they had experienced a long exhausting day and had got
more exhausted wading through the deep snow, and a peculiarity he
noticed was a distant hum, similar to a distant engine whirling,
out at an unknown place, and it started to drive him insane trying
to identify it.
    It was no
surprise that Commander Craven eventually made them blast them with
as many well aimed rounds to force some form of reaction, but they
seemed to ignore it, and he knew that they would have to hit them
with something or force them away!
    It was
incredible when thick snow piled down, and he knew that they could
use it as it was virtually impossible to see through in the dark,
and he realized he had a thermal weapon sight in his equipment and
he used it to see what he could find through the darkness and
blizzard! Yet they were too good at hiding!
    “ What are we going to do
...? ” one
of men finally spluttered, fighting for air, furious that they had
been put in a situation.
    Commander
Craven stopped checking their weapons and showed how
annoyed he was at his reply and at the way things were going, and
walked towards him.
    “ We better agree to something
... ” he
shouted, giving glances about at things and realizing the mess of
his expedition, and decided not to continue.
    “ Where can we go? ” a soldier named Reeves
continued, who was near Weaver, and Weaver had become close to as
he was his most trusted person as he had been able to check him out
more than anyone else there, which he had done before the mission,
as he checked them all as much as possible to find out anything
that he should know, and he had checked for the people that he
could most depend on.
    “ Well I’ve an idea!” Weaver forced
himself to reply, seeing that nothing was going to happen, and
watched Commander Craven gasp and look like he knew something about
him, and he realized that even though he could know something that
he was still reacting to what had happened with his damaged
parachute and his way of saving himself.
    “ Do you think we should attack them
then!” Commander Craven answered firmly.
    “ I’ve been monitoring them with
my thermal weapon
sight!” he swiftly replied. “None of them show themselves! So I
reckon we could easily surprise some of them!”
    “ Good idea! But dangerous! You have to
wade through that bloody blizzard and not be seen! Can you do it
then?”
    “ Yes!” he answered. “Anyone want to
join me? We can’t stay here all night!”
    Weaver was surprised that nobody but Reeves
agreed with carrying it out, and he realized that they never
thought much of the idea! Yet he did see their point and that he
would only be able to get one or two, and risk putting them in
further danger. Yet deep down he really wanted to know who was
there, and capture one and question him.
    “ So you’re going?” Commander Craven
laughed.
    “ Yes!” he replied firmly, and started
fixing himself up and preparing himself, and watched their blank
faces examining him.
    Once