The wind is gusting over the top of the mountain, drowning out minor noises and easily masking you and your troopers as you move around and over the jagged rocks. Patches of long grass sway in the breeze, and even these help to mask your movements. As you advance you often lose sight of your troopers behind outcrops, but your forearm display maintains their position at all times and you can see that you are all moving forward at roughly the same speed. Trusting them to take care of themselves, you focus on your own approach.
You reach the final outcrop, beyond which you can still detect the motionless signal of the Terran prisoner. Easing up against the line of rocks, you peek around. On the far side, across a patch of open ground, you can see a gaggle of rebel soldiers. You need to shift your position to get a field of view down the narrow opening between two boulders, but eventually you assess six rebels, all armed and alert. In the middle of them you see the Terran trooper sitting motionless, head down. Your heart soars: it's Amori. He's alive, and appears unhurt. Even as you watch he looks up at the approach of a rebel.
You immediately recognize the solid form of Major Zhang. This is an interesting development. You barely know Zhang, but you know that he has the potential to be reasonable.
The fact that Amori is alive and unharmed speaks to his respect for prisoners, even while a battle rages in the caves below. But he is still a senior rebel leader, and this is a combat zone.