The search team assigned to find the fugitives in southern Russia. They received fairly tame orders but they were ridiculous ones as well. They had in essence disappeared almost completely and it was getting to the point that the search team had to give up and look elsewhere, beyond the borders in the off-chance that they did escape through the snowstorm. 

Unbeknownst to them, they had passed the logger house where the three were located. Andjela would not pass this location off so easily however. Any other location and she would have ignored it like the search team did. But this place... it had something to it that... felt... odd. She decided to take a closer look, light in her step, using the trees to her advantage to scout the grounds. Now with the storm having died down, she had so much room to work with.

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The press conference was filled with familiar faces, reporters who were getting the time of their lives getting to write breaking headlines, scoring big on the catastrophes but at the same time concerned that there even occurred. In a time where there was so much security in the world, why is all this - any of this - happening?

A reporter, dark-skinned in complexion with prominent Asian features and a strong accent, spoke through the clutter of raised hands, readied pens, and pointed cameras: 

"Let's cut to the chase. We have received reports of the recent event in Cambodia being an unprecedented, incredibly powerful earthquake. However, intel has it that the military is being mobilized to counter terrorist figures in Siem Reap, the scene of the catastrophe. This intel is reassured truth and straight from the source. If that's the case, what really happened in Pub Street? Was it the dragon creature again?"