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The entirety of the squad was, for the most part, slowly making its way through the woods by this point, one would expect. Through the leadership of the officers and Sergeants, things would finally be underway. Silence permeated around the squad, save for the crunching of snow under foot. If the soldier's weren't moving by this point, they would have to make sure to keep up- particularly with Sergeant Talisman and his fireteam, who seemed to be setting the pace for the rest of the squad.

Lurk scowls at Wolfy, having still been nearby when she started calling him a rogue. "I'm not a deserter, Sergeant," he drawls boredly. He was still using his communicator, despite their proximity and possible entry into the dark zone. Despite his claim, he wasn't making himself visible to the rest of the squad, and sighs inwardly. The incompetence of these people was getting to him. "I'm scouting ahead and going dark," he decides, shutting off his communicator and hefting his sniper rifle before flitting off into the woods. He'd complete the mission on his own if he had to.

(I am doing a time skip here. You folks can make your posts to get moving as you will, but things are moving forward.)
After Lurk makes his final communique and disappears into the woods, the silence becomes the most prominent feature of the woods once again- aside from the snow, and the constant crunch of boots going through it. Some time later, the first team would finally be nearing the base. Talisman and his team would be probably twenty minutes out from the perimeter defenses of the base, if they could see them- but they might notice, not far ahead at all, a small patrol's worth of men, six at least, walking in formation with their eyes peeled. Their first contacts of the mission.