![]() Her spacesuit protected her from burns, or she would have been more worried about it. ![]() ![]() Her pants were definitely on fire, though, blue and magenta because of the methane. She also wasn’t actually running, more of an aggressive hobble that wanted very badly to be a run, but her left gravboot was randomly malfunctioning and sticking her to the ground, so she kept having to send a deactivation command through her commlink to get moving again. It wasn’t actually snow so much as a highly flammable form of crystalline methane precipitating peacefully from the sky of the aptly named planet Kehma. Captain Eva Innocente ran through the snow, trying to ignore that her pants were on fire. ![]()
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