[hr][hr][center][h1][color=662d91]Alexander Polawski[/color][/h1]
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[hr][center][b][color=662d91]Location:[/color][/b]Eden: Terrace, near stairs - Veranda, near hallway leading to Wrath.
[color=662d91]Skills: [/color]Pistol, Navigation[/center][hr][hr]

Alexander couldn't decide if Gavin was being heroic in his effort to take out another room filled with Edenites, which would make their position less exposed, or reckless for doing it without first attending to his injuries. Sure it could have been a mostly harmless gun-shot wound that would only become a major issue if infected or cause severe blood-loss, and they didn't have the luxuary of a medic in the squad with morphine, bandages and that glue-spray. For they had to keep moving and keep up the pressure on an enemy with superior numbers, but Alexander was still concerned that Gavin didn't even acknowledge his concern. That, and that it was the adrenaline alone keeping their cowboy alive. But he got the room cleared with the pleasent word of "Clear!", which meant that it was time to move. 

Move, give covering-fire for the others to move, more under their covering-fire. Rinse and repeat, that was the Army way of doing it. It was Their way of doing it, and smart way. Alexander saw Navy T push up to the hallway to their left, probably west, and opening fire at someone. She was military, she knew what she was doing. Even if she was Navy. After Thalia joined behind Thana, Alexander moved up to them and held his pistol at the ready. And to his great surprise, they weren't getting shot at. The man...someone, whoever was taking cover down the hallway, had shouted that he wasn't one of them, pleading them not to shoot him. It was a nice change of pace, but Alexander had his doubts. 

It was the oldest trick in the book. At least in the top-ten. Alexander had experienced it himself before; unknown Vietnamese man approaching them out on patrol, claiming to be either a peaceful peasent out in the jungle or a NVA/Viet-Cong deserter. While promising to cause them no harm, it was all a pretty convincing decoy while their position was getting surrounded. First time they were too naive, and second time they shot the man without second thought, but with regret for years to come. 

Alexander wanted to believe whoever claimed to not be one of "Them", but the risk of it being a trick was very present in his mind. Probably was both T's too. As he stood behind Thana and Thalia, looking from the hallway and over to their rear in the south in case they might get flanked, he kept quiet waiting for Navy's lead. Like Thalia he could support either decision, even if he preferred the first and feared the latter.