The first thing that Anderson does is airdrop onto the newcomer's head, and it says a lot to Poison about the boy that he doesn't react badly - or really react at all. The octocat seems perfectly happy where he is, curling his fuzzy, squashy tentacles against the sides of Yamamoto's head, so Poison just smiles and gives the binoculars a little wiggle of encouragement before he takes them from her.

"Weird things happen here all the time," she says speculatively. She's been looking at the sinkhole for at least twenty minutes and hasn't seen anything lurking around the rim, but that doesn't mean anything.

"But you're probably right, and you won't be the only one thinking it. We have suits for the radiation, and vehicles to get out there."