Get to Know Brawler Yukon

Part 10 of the "Know Your Rangers" series, originally published here on March26/2015. 
Author's note: "For patrickwsawyer & shmoo92."
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“Ready for this?”
“As I’m gonna be.”
“Been a while, hasn’t it?”
“Mmhmm.” 
Nervous thoughts flit through their Drift.
“We’ll be fine, Cait.”
“I know, but—”
“It’s been two years since we’ve done anything but patrol—”
“And now we’re so short-handed—”
“We have to un-retire.”
Anxiety schools up with resolve.
“It’s Vancouver, too.”
“Kinda appropriate. Not gonna be alone this time, though.”
“Think they’ll make it in time?”
“The way the California pilots fly? They’ll beat us there.”
Sparkles of amusement.
“"Speaking of which, we’ve got updated tracking.”“
"What’s the bad news, Mister Choi?”
“"Still headed for Vancouver, but it’s slowed way down.”“
"Enough time for more backup to get there?”
“"Sorry, Doctor. It’s gotta be just you and /Romeo to start.”“
A flicker of panic.
A blanket of comfort.
"Once the uncertainty’s out of the tracking, folks’ll start shifting toward us, right?”
“"You got it. The Seattle group’s already set up on the north perimeter to cut a couple minutes off travel time.”“
A swell of gratitude.
Click goes the comm switch.
"I don’t like this, Sergio. We sh— We’re not—”
“I know, Eleven, but you and a lotta folks thought we couldn’t do it the first time.”
“And we did.”
“And we did.”
“We’ll do it again.”
“We will.”
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