"I do not consider any act that disarms me and divests me of my uniform to be anything other than Malicious." Still, he presses on. The walk through the overgrowth isn't a long one. There are buildings not too distant from them, and Ren hopes to find something of use within them, if not the clues she mentioned.

"If we came from beneath the water and were not thrown into it, searching above ground might well be useless to us."