My Secret, My Bully, My Mates

"So do I work by myself or pick a group?"

"You work with the people on your floor." I snap my head to him. "It's both men and women. This is a large group exercise for when we do larger evacuations. And unfortunately there have been far too many of those in recent history. Yes, the floor leaders are in charge of the exercise." He answers my unasked question.

Perfect.

I walk over to where Audrina and the rest of our floor is standing waiting to get on the course. In the light of day and not in the middle of running the course I can see different rope ladders and access points to each part of the course. So I can actually come out here and take the time to figure out each course piece, that is when I get the time. I look forward to that.

me." A very large guy standing next to Wyatt

back where she belongs. Then she can't hold us

the dumbest thing I have ever heard. First, we don't put newbies in the back especially when we don't know all of their skills. Second, this newbie happens to be the most agile person on ropes I have ever seen and should be one of the first people to go. You weren't at trials, you didn't see what her skills were at all, be petty and judgy later. We need to complete this course in record time, I'm done losing to Jack and

team." "Suits me." Tall guy says. "Name's John, but everyone calls me 'Tracker.' We have to get all 20 of us across and down in the shortest amount of time. We have been doing training drills for a few weeks, stick close to me, you seem to read the room pretty well. Any suggestions, I'll take them, but watch first

can. She's on my team and eventually we are going to be forced to work together, but at least for now, there are so many people and she is in her element of being in charge and verbalizing

and some of these other guys are going to manage to move up quickly. From there we are scaling across the rope bridge that has a single rope for feet and single rope for hands and the bars in between to keep them about seven feet apart. If we had children with us on the evacuation, there is no way any of us would choose this bridge style. I say as much