Nisha and I continued forward, leaving the charred body for the excavation team to deal with. Milo had directed us down a specific path, but something pulled me in a different direction. Towards the path those Huallapens had been stampeding from.
I couldn't explain it. They'd been running from something, and as much as our job was to reach the boss room as fast as we could, I had this nagging feeling that ignoring whatever spooked an entire herd was going to bite us later.
Nisha didn't argue. I didn't even have to sell it. The moment I suggested we change course, she looked at me with that flat, unreadable expression of hers and asked one question.
"Are you sure?"
I confirmed, and that was that. Here we were, tracing a path deeper into the canyons, well off course from what Milo had assigned us.
We walked in silence for a while, neither of us picking up the conversation that had been cut short earlier. The quiet settled between us like a third companion.
