He felt his irritation mount with each passing second that his partner remained missing. Where did the guy go? The man muttered to himself, scanning the plain terrain all around. This was what truly puzzled him because they were in an open space, like a small playground for kids, except that it did not have any play tools like the seesaw, swings or slides.
To one end of the small green outdoor space was what looked like the main building, or so he thought, with another smaller one slightly adjacent to it and to his back were the plains that dropped abruptly so that he could see the sea and its horizon just beyond that.
This only told him that his partner could not have run in either direction in that short span of time. He was just not that fast! If that had happened, he, the first and oldest agent, would have seen his partner's back and the direction he had taken.