"You'd have to hit pretty hard," he calls over his shoulder, amused.

Dynames, presumably under the direction of the mysterious Haro, lowers a thing kind of like a rope ladder with only one rung. Neil steps on, it retracts, and he climbs into the cockpit and disappears shortly thereafter.

Absolutely nothing happens for about fifteen seconds.

Then Neil speaks, his voice only slightly amplified.

"Is anyone using that overgrown patch there?"

He raises the suit's arm and points off to the side, at the space between the orchard and the back of the earth bunker.