Finding him sooner was not at the top of everyone's list of priorities, so it did take some discussion to agree.
It remained true that Hauntico Investigations were no longer on friendly terms with Division Response Solutions and that there had been a rather poor atmosphere between the two of them.
That situation made it less likely that they could work together on such a task, especially when there could be resentment between them that could be acted upon in yet another dangerous situation.
In that type of situation, it was unwise to just send most people to search for someone and to leave the rest sitting around waiting.
The better way of dealing with that type of situation was to split up the groups to cover the things that needed to be done.
One side wanted to search for Silas and to confirm his situation.
The other side wanted to get to the bottom of the mountain and to make it back to the village.
