At the LAV, Hawke didn't see any movement along the deserted and flooded highway corridor.
As they couldn't see anything there, Stone ordered Tremblay to bring the vehicle about and try to work around to the north. Maybe they could find some LOS.
After they exited the edge of the flood water (water loudly streaming off the hull), Hawke looked to the right. There, parked back in the overgrown trees lining the north side of the highway, was parked a rusted Ford F150 truck and a couple of motorcycles, all hidden under a camouflage net. They'd missed them on their way into the water, but on the way out Hawke just happened to be looking in the right direction (through a break in the trees).
Over by the pig farm, Kelsey moved up behind Taras. Like him, the side of the berm had proved a difficult to navigate and she'd ended up in the water up to her waist, but managed not to fall over completely or make too much noise. She realised the bandsaw was not in the barn but in the yard in front (unseen at this angle). She could hear music (the Rolling Stones, now, as it's a proven scientific fact that psychopaths love classic rock).
She heard the sound of a man taunting a sobbing woman.
"See? That's gonna be you. You behave, you'll get one bullet in the head. If not, we'll still have our fun, but you'll be alive when we take you apart. You don't want that." It sounded like the noise was coming from just on the other side of the berm, not too far from the stairs.
Taras heard her come up as he peeked over the berm. AKSU at the ready, he carefully raised his head up over the level of the berm. There wasn't much to see, just the upper level of the barn.
10m to his right was the body of the militiaman or mercenary, lying on his back on the berm, limbs stretched out, open eyes staring up at the sky.
They could both smell something really nasty coming from inside the fortress-like walls of the compound. Corruption and rot.