It had been quite some time since Chromite had heard anything from Soapstone, so she decided to go into his room to check on him.  When she arrived, he was nowhere to be found.  "[color=darkgray]Soapstone?[/color]" she called out.  It occurred to her that he wasn't anywhere on the ship the last time she'd made her rounds either.  Didn't she hear him saying at one point that he was considering taking the warp pad to homeworld after Bloodstone said that was a possibility?  Apparently he had done just that.  

Chromite decided that she would wait until Bloodstone returned to report this news to him, it wasn't as if this was something he'd think she was lying about.  Unusually for her, Chromite checked the ship's scanners.  Bloodstone had seemed strangely panicked about something he'd seen on them earlier, and Chromite felt that it was part of her duty to know what.  She picked up four readings coming from a desert near the town, one of them was consistent with the biomarkers of a human, and the others were quite clearly gem monsters, and formidable ones at that.  [color=darkgray]"I rather doubt the commander would appreciate me letting them go unrestrained, and what is that human thinking?"[/color]  

Chromite took the warp pad to the nearest available location relative to the desert and got there as quickly as she could, to see that what she'd gotten from the readings was accurate, a lone human had decided to take on three monsters with nothing more than a human pistol.  She approached her and said, half sarcastically, [color=darkgray]"If you were planning taking the stealth route, maybe you should have reconsidered using such a loud weapon."[/color]