They end up encountering a strange animal in the morning on their way back, the animal acts out of character and attacks them, the two manage to escape without needing to harm the creature, but are disturbed by the discovery.
They get back to the bunker, tired and cold but in relatively good health now that they are back. Ilyas (very strangely) peps up immediately after getting into the warm air. Everyone thought they were dead after the blizzard, and try to get them to the medical bay as quickly as possible.
One of the leaders that work in the medical bay stops by to ask what happened. Einar explains the animal sighting, and goes into it's strange behavior as well as it's odd mutations. The doctor doesn’t believe a word he says. Ilyas backs him up, but the nurses as well as the head doctor accuse them of suffering from hypothermia. They don’t take their words as truth and tell them that they will not be able to leave the bunker until they recover.
A student called Dean overheard their claims at the door, and meets them in the infirmary to talk to them about it. She takes their words as fact, explaining how she's sure they aren't suffering from any sort of delusions. She grows excited when talking about what they saw, and makes Einar promise to take her out with them on their next trip as a learning opportunity.
Dean leaves to go start the paperwork and approval needed for the “field work"