What took you all so long?? Was Merric that stubborn??

We ran into... trouble.

The air army breached the front door. We had to route to avoid them.

Also, we sealed the blast doors on the upper floor, and set off the fire suppression system, so they'll have to deal with that.

So that should delay them for quite some time.

You sealed the doors?!

But the entire orphanage was still up there!!

What!!!

She's kidding.

I am. Everyone else has already left. You three are the last ones.

It's probably not a good idea to scare a powerful telepath like that.

That wasn't very funny! I've been very worried the past few ticks, you know!!

You can still make our escape machine, right, crimsontail?

Because we just packed up the last vehicle with del and sent it off outside the tunnel.

Yeah, yeah. I've got it covered.