{starter call!} || @millicentclyde
"Careful, Millie--!" he calls out without thinking, hastily repeating in sign as he whistles for the Pikmin to scurry over to his side of the cave. They've cleared out all the hostile creatures lurking in the dark, but this cavern still has its dangers; volatile bomb-rocks keep coming loose from the ceiling as the hordes of Pikmin stomp about. Olimar's nearly gotten an explosion to the face twice already on this floor alone! The sooner they bundle up the last few treasures to be found here, the better.
'Are you alright?' he signs as he trots back over to his partner and the now-shattered stone. She appears to have been digging out the largest item they've found in this cave so far. Definitely worth sticking around despite the danger, but...
"I'm sick to death of this," he mutters to himself. It's one thing for the president to send Olimar here to risk his life when the pilot has the benefit of prior experience on this world, but to make Millicent come, too? He hopes she's at least getting something out of the trip beyond their usual piddling paycheck.
"We can always go back up." 'Go up?' "I'll let you decide."
He refuses to force her deeper and deeper into these caverns just to make money they'll never see.