do you still wish to be one of the scouting parties ? as opposed to what , the world ? '' she 'd moved into the darkness , and now stood on the north side of the tent , watching the shadowed forms move within . she yanked her trench coat closed , her aqua eyes suspicious . i did n't bother answering as the lift soared upward . no one would look for him for days . the lights worked , surprisingly , as this may have been the first time in ten years that anyone had turned them on . 