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"I noticed that," Jordan said, casting a puzzled glance at the pile of snow. "It was harder to tell outside with the weather, but the first one we took on did the same thing." He picked his way over the scattered debris to poke thoughtfully at the pile. "Looks like ordinary snow," he said thoughtfully.

Something was nagging at the back of his mind, but he couldn't quite focus on it; whenever he tried, it flitted away. He stopped trying to figure it out. It'd come to him if it was going to.

Ferros poked the half-formed idea, sending it back into hiding.

Don't do that, Jordan said, annoyed.

Only after the yeti exploded did Sasha manage to fumble her way into summoning Nona. Tears threatened to spill down her pale cheeks as Before asked her if she was hurt. It wasn't the words that he used, but his tone of voice that really stung. The last thing she wanted to do, though, was to burst into tears here and now. Not on a mission, and not surrounded by fellow hunters.

<Save them for later, my precious ghoul.> It was the most reasonable that Nona had been since the start of this mission.

Yes.

Blinking her eyes rapidly, Sasha gave her attention to Before.

"No, sir," she mumbled, eyes glassy. Nona was gripped in her hands, the cool metal of her handles soothing in some strange way. She couldn't blame the Intermediate for being upset - Sasha doubted that 'baby-sitting idiots' was listed in his job description.

<You are no idiot, dove. You are my Sasha, and you will learn. Nona will teach you.>

Candace sighed and rubbed the back of her head. It hurt from slamming into the wall. "Hmm? Oh, I'll be okay. Thank you, Molly." Candace pat her shoulder, using the girl to stand steady for a moment. She'd be okay. She was fine. Her head was throbbing and she was getting a nasty headache but she'd be okay.

So it was an anomaly for them that this creature was deforming into snow. "...Then why did he turn into snow." Strange. Another look was given to Aria and H; she was beginning to get suspicious that the yeti was...too convenient.

"Good job, you two." Candace smiled Molly and Mercedes' way. "Let's get back to cleaning up and finding whatever we can. I'm hoping once we get into that room there'll be more to tell us what happened here. But if you pick up any debris, check it thoroughly for any kind of marks to take note of." She looked down at the snow melting at her feet. "And keep your guard up..."

Candace climbed over the tossed debris to get to Cass, looking her over as she approached the younger girl. "You okay?" What was that ringing sound? Was it in her head? s**t. Candace shook her head as if that would get it to stop. She'd be fine, it was just from hitting the wall.

"Oh yeah, I'm good." Candace didn't sound very convincing, but she laughed as she said it and gave Cass a thumbs up anyway. "I've hit harder. Clarice's weapon smacked me in the head once and I was fiiiiine. I've got this." She rubbed at one of her ear with a frown. She'd be fine. It was just the shock of smacking her head.

Before didn't feel any pangs of guilt at Sasha's demeanor. He'd given her simple instructions and it didn't even look like she tried to listen to him. Why so surprised, silly Before? People simple go through the motions when they deal with you. She won't be any different. Seems like even his partner wasn't in the mood to be accommodating to the Misty's inner tantrum.

The Misty gave a sigh, breathing out his annoyance before asking the Lifer, in a more amicable voice, "Where are you hurt? We should have some bandages in the kit."

Cass grinned and pat Candace on the shoulder. "If you need some painkillers or something, I've got some in my supplies." she offered. She probably needed to pop one as well for her shoulders, but never the less, it looked like their work was cut out for them with all the debris littered around again. It looked like they needed to clear stuff out a bit.

Again.

"Well, I think that encounter could have gone a little better, though. I...." she paused and looked towards the Moon Division to see who hadn't scattered to attack with them, then to the Lifers with a sigh. This was a mess. Even H seemed to taking notes, and Cass shot him a curious look - after all, she had hero complex going on all over the place with Aria and H in one room.

"I have a feeling that we need to do more exercises like this to get us working in a proper tandem where we don't all jump to attack things, though. It seems like we're really used to doing that for a first response.."

Marcus was resisting banging his head against the wall. Did the moon trainees just.... "The heck are you doing?" his voice was exasperated. "We're moon division, not look around and investigate division." Saya and Ami both got a disappointed look. The sound outside got a pausing glance but Marcus heard no screams, and while Bix seemed moved to cover, Marcus only asked Dis his opinion.
Caution I'd say. The sun hunters are supposed to watch your backs. Your a** too, but I don't hold that against them
The weapon was ever helpful. It wasn't until Rin bust in that Marcus's look went from disappointment to frustrated. "Figures." One of the other moon trainees went to investigate more, making Marcus roll his eyes. What the hell was going through their minds he hadn't a clue. It didn't help as the Yeti showed up. Marcus was fine to just stand clear of the hunters and monster. They killed it. Yay them.

"Rin." Marcus looked at the huntress who'd "I want you to take debris and begin to fill in the hole below the one at window level. Saya, Ami, do the same with the one above that. Use debris if possible to barricade the holes. While the Yeti can obviously break through the walls, and we have the gate to the arctic over here, closing the smaller might discourage it from making them bigger, especially if you make the barricade have things like split wood to act as spikes."
Going over to Candace he motioned to the large gaping 'skylight'. "Candace, do you think it might be possible to have a few mists see if they can get on the roof and try to asses the damage from above? Alternatively would you mind helping with sealing off the main hole? If not that's fine, we'll have to move more debris either way. Speaking of-"

Looking at the other two Moon trainees, Marcus was wondering if he was cut out for this. "Emma, Michael, help me move the debris to the largest hole, make sure to follow the same set up of placing deterrents. Make sure to keep things solid and sturdy, give it a small shake as you move to check if it's weak as you build. Same goes for you three." He looked back at Ami, Rin, and Saya.

"We're moon division, our job is defense. Not investigating, not rushing to fight, it's defending. In this case, building. So, I want to see us actually build something." It was pretty clear Marcus was frustrated, and he cast a glance at Ariane. "Over see the three, I'll keep an eye on these two" There was a small twinge of self doubt in his voice. He wasn't sure what he was doing was the right thing, but it was... better than nothing right? Grabbing a broken board, he used it to shove debris at the largest hole, taking some time to set various bits to jut outward, packing them in. the board was to be the 'backing' more or less.

It was something.

Cass nodded to Mercedes. "Normally monsters should dissipate when you finish smashing them around a bit. Which is why we're urged to not actually hurt them to that point. It lets them reform elsewhere and actually is a safer option for them." she explained as to why the snow made her suspicious.

Never the less, she knew what it was the girl mean.

"Normally we go out as Trainees to learn, but I don't think we've done a lot of missions where we split up and actually try to function as our groups are meant to interact." she further answered. "So you'll get used to people who woke up around the same time as you. Us Intermediates all woke up at about the same time, so we've pretty much 'grown up'" air quotations "together, despite divisions."