[b]South East Sewers: Roman Cassidy[/b]

Happy with Caville and Eira's complete trust in his judgement, Roman brought them down the South-East tunnel with confident purpose, staying as vigilant as he could manage through tunnels both unreasonably large and uncomfortably small. They reached a recently-created tunnel, Adam's radio frequency so deafening before he turned it off that there was no doubt they had made it to the outpost. Roman was tired enough at this point to let his guard down- his feet and back aching, his eyelids drooping, effects of what he would later realize was mental exhaustion brought on by a stressful and chaotic first day in a true warzone- and found himself almost filled with bullet holes as his allies at the outpost greeted him with a hail of gunfire.

Luckily, he was pulled backwards and out of the way in time. Also luckily, he managed not to brown his pants when something used an amount of strength he thought could only belong to the Goleyeith or Caville's pursuer to pull him out of the way. A quick and frightened turn revealed that it was Caville himself that had saved Roman's life, an Adam Caville sporting a new wound leaking an orange substance instead of the red he was so used to see leak out of people. Looking down at his strange wound, which somehow had already closed, Adam added [b]"...Well... This is awkward..."[/b] to his heroic act.

With the revelation that Caville was a shapeshifter, Roman could only wonder what other strange revelation would be enough to button up the day's events. Was the pursuer an angry shapeshifter girlfriend? Was Eira also not human? Was the Goleyeith really a regular guy that got all big when pissed off? Was Ryan Dufont a terrorist? Hell, at this point, Roman could believe anything.

Caville continued. [b]"... Before you go and expose me, I would ask that you... Perhaps... Don't. I'm not your enemy... But there is no way I'm getting inside to talk to anyone important unless I disguise myself like this."[/b] He handed the black box to Eira, who now had two to carry. [b]"Here. This is the genuine black box of Carolyn's mech... And there was a pilot named Adam Caville... But he didn't escape. He was eviscerated by one of my kind. I took the remnants and replicated them to look like this so I could try and... Negotiate, try and talk and explain this to your leaders, but if I showed my true nature to anyone here... Well, you saw it for yourself. That man didn't even bother to see if you were his friend before he shot at you, he is that scared of... Things like me."[/b] The shapeshifter had a point, and with the fact that he [i]had[/i] just saved Roman from an ally's attack, there was more than enough reason to consider Caville's plea. [b]"It's your choice. You can reveal me for what I am or help me slip inside undetected so I won't be gunned down by your men. I will comply either way."[/b]

Looking first to Eira, Roman tried to put his 'I am a completely confident and in no way in-too-deep soldier with a big gun and a big dick' face on before responding to Caville. [b]"I'm not going to try and tell you that I anything but dislike the deception. To be fair, there seemed to be no other way for you to get here than with proper help. Listen: you may not be a soldier, but you are now the third or fourth person to save my life today- yes, I've lost count, but at least I know that you're one of them- so I can't help but think that I owe you something. You trusted me this whole way, and now it's time for me to trust you. But at some point, you will have to give me an explanation, especially when it concerns whatever you're actually here for, but also those little things like that monster that was chasing you and what that had to do with anything. So if Eira's alright with it, I'll play along for now."[/b] Having said his piece, Roman looked to his human companion and waited for her decision.