[Camp — Northern Eastern Island — Day 64 — 5:30 AM]
Kira woke before everyone.
Which was usual — Kira always woke before everyone, Predator's Sense active in passive mode even while sleeping, processing the environment with the same efficiency as when awake.
What wasn't usual was what Predator's Sense had been reading during the night.
The Eastern Island's ecosystem within the camp's radius — two kilometers of creatures that the reading plane couldn't fully classify, with movement routes and behavior patterns that didn't correspond to any ecosystem on the main continent. The same fauna she had seen from the road the day before, but at night and in proximity.
Kira wanted to see it up close.
She looked at the sleeping camp.
She looked at Alex — who was sleeping in the same sleeping bag as Grim, with the crimson flames visible even through the sleeping bag because Grim didn't exactly sleep but also wasn't fully awake, and his flames never completely went out.
