[i][b]"Maintaining overwatch position."[/b][/i] Still, Gavi didn't focus in on the strike location too long, but rather kept an eye over the areas around it -- the noise and smoke were bound to bring out any other enemy elements looking to probe it. Gavi and Inakel stayed rooted in place -- the Pilavian because that was, perhaps, her instinct and the Israeli because he was a well-trained soldier. That showed when the Pilavian made a hissing and growling sound, and he turned to his left, the side she was looking to, with his rifle to see what it was, bringing the weapon in line with the hunched over horror-form of a Salvesh up close. He could never remember the conscious decision to squeeze the trigger twice, being as it was total reflex, but he remembered the mess of bone and alien blood, bluish rather than the red of Terran viscera that sprayed up. The Salvesh crumpled with the nervelessness of the dead into a splayed pile of awkward limbs and body laid at a strange angle, while Gavi did the calculations -- the direction the beast came from didn't appear, at first glance, to have a place where such a large thing could hide and the Salvesh wasn't detected earlier. He crept forward, along the path the Salvesh took and found what he was looking for; a moment later, a grenade pin was pulled, the spoon released, the weapon dropped and the hatch closed on the Salvesh's hole. [b]"Fire in the hole!"[/b] he called over comms, even as he found his way back to a cover position. There was a brief thump of an explosion and silence, which is when he reported, [i][b]"Riddler, be advised, made contact with single Salvesh, found tunnel system it emerged from. I put a grenade down the entrance."[/b][/i]