[The trip couldn't be perfectly painless, of course. The land outside the Quarantine is wild and untamed, full of creatures of all shapes and sizes -- and some of them are hungry.]
[As evening darkens the trees and undergrowth around them, faint lights like flickering fire occasionally illuminate the forest. Never in the same place twice, always hanging far enough back that investigating would put an unacceptable distance between the curious person and the trucks they ought to be protecting.]
[In fact, those lights are fire-wolves, canines with molten teeth and fiery breath -- and the two over there are only drawing attention while the rest of the pack circles around, only announcing their presence when they lunge out of the brush in attack.]
Random Encounter
[As evening darkens the trees and undergrowth around them, faint lights like flickering fire occasionally illuminate the forest. Never in the same place twice, always hanging far enough back that investigating would put an unacceptable distance between the curious person and the trucks they ought to be protecting.]
[In fact, those lights are fire-wolves, canines with molten teeth and fiery breath -- and the two over there are only drawing attention while the rest of the pack circles around, only announcing their presence when they lunge out of the brush in attack.]