"No."

Pen sounds relatively emphatic, but that is definitely an order. She had considered that, but that seemed like a good way for them to be ambushed and cut off. And that was not what they were here to deal with today.

"We don't know enough about it to risk splitting up. I say we just go right to where we think it is. There's a kind of audacity to it that I don't think it will expect."

Which is just a hunch.

"But if you have other ideas," she says as she creeps towards the opening in the main yard, "I am happy to listen."