For Piney:
A beast had been spotted near where the cleansers were currently working. It was probably a jackal, smallish but sneaky and in the beast form, aggressive. Several scouts were assigned to keep watch and help take it down, if need be, since setting the environment on fire wasn't likely to kill it outright. Ilmari ended up being one of the people sent on this mission. He didn't know why. He was a night scout, and even if they needed to dig into those ranks, most of the cleansers here were Swedish, and he didn't speak the language well enough to be useful in that way. He just figured he'd keep watch of someone specifically if it came down to not knowing what else to do.
He was put with a group of cleansers and he really didn't know any of them. He was pretty sure he hadn't seen any of them before. Many of them talked among themselves, while he sat on the far end of the transport, quiet but alert.
One of the younger cleansers seemed very nervous.
Once they got on site, someone figured out that Ilmari could speak some Norwegian, and things started going more smoothly. He did end up following the nervous girl, though they found a good perch for him to watch from and cover the rest of the squad as well.
He wasn't too sure what he was watching for, just that it was a smallish, quick creature called a jackal. It was supposed to look a little like a bigger fox. He wondered why it was called a jackal then, instead of just “a big fox”, but he was sure he would never get a straight answer. So for most of the morning he sat in his perch, scanning the edges of where his team was working. Intermittently, he checked on Nervous Girl.
Nervous Girl turned out to … well she wasn't BAD at her job, Ilmari noted, she just didn't seem to be good at it, or really very interested. Not that he would have known what to do in her situation either. She started fires in some undergrowth after someone else had clear a small area around the spot to be burned. You knew that the stuff that was cleared would be burned as well, later. It was mainly making sure the fire didn't spread from the containment area. Or if it did, it would still be safe to escape.
