With two men missing it was going to make the remainder of the sortie difficult.**In the kitchen Axe was chowing down hard on some nachos, cheese dip ...nd salsa when Lissa eased into the room. He raised an eyebrow as his gaze went from her face down to the hem line of her skirt almost immediately. Noting the direction of his gaze Lissa made sure to keep in full view as she eased over to the fridge in her stocking clad feet.“You’re pretty good,” she said as she pulled the fridge door open only. I don't even think they're hard to make though I've never made one." It doesn't look very complicated. I'll ask Cowta what he thinks about it." Well why don't you try this one out before you do. You might not even like it."I got up and let her sit down. Of course she liked it since her previous best camping furniture was a rock. She relinquished it after a few minutes and went off in search of Cowta. I hoped her new stool wouldn't put the saddles too far behind schedule but I wasn't going to. “You just can’t get good help these days,” Derek said. Maddie grabbed hold of Keith and for the first time Keith began to take in his surroundings.The roof of the cavern was so high that it disappeared in darkness, out of reach of the torchlight. Fifty feet across the cavern from its entrance were massive doors flanked by the statues of a man and a woman that rose into darkness from the cavern floor. They were dressed in pharaohic garb holding an ankh and crowned by a serpent, barely visible. It was a dad and his two young girls.He was waiting on water to charge the 1 3/4” hose line. “Damn!” came the voice of his second driver, Virgil Dalton from over his shoulder, “we've got to do something Carl.”“Shit!” he turned to his partner, “okay, look Virg, I'm going. You get water you put me out first, got it?” Carl took a deep breath and twisted the regulator of his Scott air pack into place and was already gone before Virg could protest. It seemed to play out in slow motion as he ducked.