Chapter 96: Suddenly hot

The mood at the back of the bus took a sudden change. Although there was an unusually tense atmosphere between them, it could have easily been attributed to the nervousness of the upcoming training, or being assigned new partners.

No one had expected such a drastic turn. Taylor, the only other girl in the fireteam, was a quiet girl with her hair in a boy cut, and a face that usually lacked expression. She also had a thin physique, which did not lean towards being very physically strong. With the level of ease she had displayed in the earlier, awkward silence led one to believe that she might have been an introvert, and that she preferred silence to conversion.

But even if that were not so, suddenly hearing a death threat being given from one of her future partners to another did not land anywhere within anyone's comfort zone or familiar territory. She was startled, and tried to bury herself deeply into the seat where she was sitting.