Tiva paces nervously, muttering to herself until the tip of Dena's brown snout crests the lip of the bridge and finally all four of you have reached the top.
"No time to rest," she says, her eyes shifting back and forth, looking for patrols. "We should get across as soon as possible."
When the humans set up Haven as a refuge for your pack, they cleared a path on the bridge just wide enough for a truck to drive comfortably across. But the bridge was originally constructed to accommodate up to ten vehicles side by side, leaving you and your companions plenty of room to scurry among the debris as you make your way to the other end.
You reach the opposite landing half an hour later, miraculously without meeting any human patrols and narrowly avoiding contact with an unexpected minefield hidden on the northern edge of the bridge.
Tiva eyes the checkpoint leading off the span and into the human compound warily, sniffing at the air.
"Nobody's here, and I don't think their surveillance system is activated," she says, placing a paw against one of two tall, dark monoliths at either side of the landing. "No humming, no crackle of electricity. Let's go for it."
Enter the Human Compound