16.2R Underground

In hindsight, I should have seen this coming a mile away.

"S-So," my teeth clattered sarcastically, partly self-deprecating and mostly trying to keep our spirits up. "What did we learn?"

Beside me, Anna shivered with reckless abandon, having foregone the strangely prim and proper demeanor from before in favor of the usual behavior that I saw in her during the first time that we properly interacted, "D-don't... und-derestimate... n-nature?"