after spending about an hour sharing stories with the survivors, David and Kieron continued with they're patrol. the survivors had told them quite a lot about what survival had been like for them, how they had eventually formed a small settlement nearby and had seen the pelican approach, and had decided to investigate. According to one of the men; a local hunter, there where several other settlements nearby of a similar size to they're own. "we should tell Rex to keep an eye out, for more Survivors", Kieron murmurs knowing that David is thinking the same thing.
after speaking to Rex, David went back on patrol while Kieron went to give the news to Helen. As David walked along he quickly detected a follower, carefully hiding a few meters behind him, moving forward in time with the spartan. David continues to move forward at a brisk pace then after a few moments turns around catching his follower red handed; a child stars up at him cautiously. "hello?" David says as softly as he could manage. "are you a... soldier?" he child asks innocently. David cocked his head looking at the child for a second. "kind of," he replies cautiously "I'm a Spartan". the child looks up at him for a second and then runs off. David shrugs and continues his patrol. after half an hour Lock reappeared, he got the survivors to be quiet and explained that the UNSC where going to set up a refugee camp until terraforming starts, then the Survivors would be moved aboard a cruiser then given houses on the surface. the survivors seemed happy with that. A marker appeared on Davids HUD. He followed the way point to the command tent.
Inside the tent, the rest of Able where gathered, Lock stood in the middle of the room next to a table. lock began to speak "we're stuck here for a few days, till reinforcements arrive, till watch the camp or the refugee camp is set up, this obviously means we cannot start here till we have the survivors clear,". Kieron waited for lock to continue, when he did not Kieron decided to infirm Lock and the others of the other settlements the Survivors had mentioned. " I didn't see any movement from where I was sitting they're probably too far away to see us, but I'll keep an eye just the same." Lock loosely discussed details of the changes to schedules.
after several hours of conversation David ducked out of the tent, half an hour prior Rex had left and unsurprisingly he was watching the city from on high, from what David could see Rex had also set up several cameras on the perimeter. David opened a private channel. "Rex you should sleep I'll take watch tonight" David said. Rex laughed, " it's okay, The Trojans taking night watch tonight. thanks for the concern though kid" Rex closed the channel. David headed for his tent.
2 days later a small fleet of pelicans had arrived, to take the survivors to a refugee camp set up somewhere nearby. lock seemed happy. now finally they could start. lock was quick to announce to the Spartans that they could finally get started tomorrow. Lock seemed impatient rather than re-leaved; he liked order, and plans, not the chaos evident in the reality around him.
the Spartans had got to know some of the Survivors reasonably well, especially the children who where fascinated by the Spartans;they had never seen anything like them before, and there weren't any Live Spartans on reach anymore. as the survivors left many of them said goodbye to the Spartans they knew, one of the children ran up to David pressed something into his hands and ran off, inside Davids hand was a small glass pendant, in the shape of what appeared to be a Moa. he put the pendant into a poach on his belt, and continued to oversee the Survivors transport.
