Operation: Yukon
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The female was waiting for us on the floor of the lowermost part of the shaft. She was no longer pregnant but cradled two newborns, one at each massive teat. She looked at us in silence, huge eyes accusing us as we filed into the chamber. It took me a few seconds to spot that what was left of Watkins and Jennings lay in a pile of dismembered limbs, white bone and hollowed out skulls in a corner. The female didn't take her eyes off us.
"Couldn't we just…" the sheriff began, but her voice tailed off. She knew, we all knew, what had to be done. That didn't mean we had to like it. An unspoken command had us all raising our weapons at the same time, and the best I can say about it is that it was quick. Afterwards we couldn't get out of the shaft quickly enough and I think we were all feeling the same. I
could hardly have felt any worse had it been a human mother and children we'd left down there and I knew I was going to see those eyes in my dreams long after the smell in my nose and throat dissipated.
The smell got stronger with every step, thick and cloying now and a constant reminder that we weren't alone in here.
"None of us did. And there's the problem. There will be another young corporal joining us when we get home. We, you and I, need to make sure this doesn't happen again. We're supposed to look after our own, not leave them lying in a hut in a body bag."
A howl rose from somewhere out in the forest. It had none of the choral quality now, just a single high wail, and although there was still beauty in it, it sounded more like pain and loss than anything affirming.
Cap herded the others into the cabin, I fetched a body bag from the back of the truck and tried to say my goodbyes to a lad I'd never known, but now owed a debt.