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Jed may have been scared and young, but he wasn't particularly dense - especially now he'd managed to get a chance to survive. Nathaniels' meaning was clear to the young Marten, and he nodded in understanding. "It was close," he answered clearly and firmly. "If I'd been there any longer, then they would've had me for sure. If it wasn't for you guys showing up..." he left the sentence hanging and looked between their faces for confirmation he'd said the right thing, clasping his hands together a little nervously.
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[i] Nathanial grasped Jed's arm, nodding "No joke. Now go on and get back to your family." he said, nudging the pine martin towards the ramp, before adjusting the rifle strap on his shoulder. "And let's hope we never see him again." He muttered towards Naida, who nodded in agreement.[/i]

It had felt good, Nathanial finally settled on before coming to the meeting, to help a misled boy. But now he was having second thoughts if Jed had really been a timid pine martin. Was it real, or a farce to play on their compassion to let him go? He knew he was in deep trouble if anyone found out. But he couldn't be sure if Jed had been pulling his chain or not, and since Nathan couldn't control the dilemma at this point, he turned his focus towards his captain, whom must've been thinking the same thoughts, surely...

But all Esailia was worried about was the way she herself was fooled by the facade of scared faces she had found in the crawler. She had even been given a bald faced fact that the husband was military, but he didn't say what kind or where he got his training. Esailia glanced up at Naida, the only member of the firesquad to actually remember something else from the crawler that hadn't been reported to Silver.

"Sir, we didn't find only survivors from the crawler." the fox began, stepping forward with a [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/10873-gears-mecha-sci-fi-with-anthro-characters-rp-in-a-detailed-story-driv/ic?page=15#post-1989022]small drive[/url] in had "The entire crawler looked spotless, as if a military unit had lived there. We did not question it at the time since our mission was to save hostages. But now, we wanted to be sure to bring it up. Why would the crawler be cleaned up? I believe this may have the answer." She held the drive up to Silver "We recovered surveillance footage from the crawler's security booth before we were attacked on the bridge."

As Naida was standing in front of the entire debrief, Esailia spoke up "What about the child we [url=http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/10873-gears-mecha-sci-fi-with-anthro-characters-rp-in-a-detailed-story-driv/ic?page=15#post-2054318]found[/url] with these undercover operatives? Or the janitors and the third civilian? Were they cleared?"