Redhawk Caldera And a voice, with the fear of a child, answers.

Towhee's offer made Reyes think they were both somehow afflicted with something. Maybe the ice had knocked him a little too hard but what the hell made his captain propose something like that in this instance? Reyes sat up a little straighter, shoulders tensing.

Here was Reyes thinking he had found someone who he could trust — something of a friend after many months of living a life running from every possible connection — and they were coming on to him? Dizzy as he was Reyes' brain flashed to the last time he had been alone with a man with the same kind of fascination, and he didn't want to be in the cave anymore.

Open up— Captain Towhee requested with a mime-show of baby shark. Reyes had stopped listening. He was on his feet and striding towards the cave entrance with a grimace on his face. No, no, no. He kept on repeating, finding it a struggle to say much else in the moment.

As he ducked through the cave entrance he felt a blast of frigid air and was peppered with snow, making him recoil in to the dark again; but Reyes turned and essentially plastered himself against the wall again with a defensive curve to his body.