"And are there others down there who feel like heading for the hills?"
"Most of them are too damned near dead to make the effort. Why desert when you've had it?"
"The blooper got a lot of 'em, eh?"
"What the blast didn't get, the radioactivity did."
"Is the pass too hot for more troops to go through it?"
"My guess is that way."
"Your guess? Don't you know?"
"I didn't go up to see. I'm not that soft in the head."
"I see your point. Well, things must be really rough if colonels are deserting. This is interesting." Cal fingered the gun but the muzzle no longer pointed at Zen's stomach. "What are you looking for up here?"
"A place to hide out."