Rebuild All Your Ruins

The door Shephard opens is one he's been practicing with for some time. There's an equipment shed not far from where the Borealis is docked, and its door doesn't have a very good line of sight on anything except a clump of trees draped in snow. It's practically ideal for avoiding inconvenient questions, if you don't mind the way the ground gets muddy pretty much the instant you come off the topmost step.

"Welcome to West Virginia," Shephard says to Bumi as he holds the door a little wider. "We ain't far from the ship, but I reckoned this'd be a better spot to start."