[color=lightgray][CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[/center][table][row][/row][row][cell] [h3][color=662d91][i][b]Alexander Polawski[/b][/i][/color][/h3][i][b][color=662d91]Location:[/color][/b][/i] Administration (A) [i][b][color=662d91]Skills:[/color][/b][/i] N/A [/cell][cell] [right][img]https://i.ibb.co/tXN2mv5/Mugsy-with-glasses-2.jpg[/img][/right] [/cell][/row][/table][CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[/center][/color] Alexander caught up with Thalia in the end, ending up at her side with a short and heavy breath. Again it wasn't that he couldn't run in his older days, but the uncomfortable nature of his stride with that new leg of his. With time however, he would persevere. Once again standing with Thalia, Alexander followed her pace back to Administration and down to the basement, listening to the short replies she gave to his line of questions. [color=662d91]"Hmm, yeah he did mention he was good with swords and shiels. True knight then, out of a fairy tale eh? Seemed like a decent fellow, and your brother liked him in the least. Tell me how the sparring goes then."[/color] Of all the people the old veteran hadn't expected to find musing around their now fairly cleaned-up basement, was Aeron the General. Out of all people he could have seen Gunny returning to see that they returned to work, perhaps the receptionist Rolodex or Sandra down to snoop around. But the General? Alexander joined for a moment in Thalia's tensing-up, though he let his shoulder slide down once he thought of two things; First, this was not the Army he was part of anymore. Two, Aeron was complimenting their work, unlike the NCOs who threw a fit over a single grain of sand in the corner of the barracks. Alexander stood at ease, leaning against the doorframe as the General spoke of their situation; he staff-issue, the comms-room and he purpose of the very room they were standing in. At first Alexander was at a loss of why the two of them, himself and Thalia, were 'just what the doctor ordered' so the General put it. It must have clicked for Alexander about the same time it did for Thalia, as ol' Mugsy turned to look at her with a growing smile on his face. [color=662d91]"We'll do our best, Sir…Aeron, I mean."[/color] Alexander managed to say before the General left, feeling a sense of purpose in his chest as he stood in the room alongside Thalia. While the back of his mind drew images of a younger Alexander crouching down and calling down an airstrike on the NVA's position, the forefront of his brain pulled Mugsy to what he was perhaps an expert on. He'd fixed up many a radio back in the day, and now his ironic dream of setting up a radio-station was coming to fruition. Sort of. He didn't mind, he smiled. [color=662d91]"Yeah, you're right. Looks like the top brass have big plans for us two now."[/color] Alexander returned to Thalia, waddling over to a corner still occupied by some insurgent cardboard box of junk and slowly picking it up. [color=662d91]"God bless our university educations, or what Angel? Anyway, let's keep up and then og pay our respects. It's gonna be a long day ahead of us yet."[/color] [color=lightgray][CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[/center][table][row][/row][row][cell] [h3][color=B8860B][i][b]Nigel Cooper[/b][/i][/color][/h3][i][b][color=B8860B]Location:[/color][/b][/i] Hydroponic Gardens (T) [i][b][color=B8860B]Skills:[/color][/b][/i] N/A [/cell][cell] [right][img]https://i.ibb.co/SQW3b6s/ezgif-com-resize-2.jpg[/img][/right] [/cell][/row][/table][CENTER]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━[/center][/color] Nigel couldn't argue with The Man Carrying the World on his back's resentment for the smell around the garden, it was indeed a barbaric smell that penetrated Nigel's nose worse than a javelin. What he and Thana did however was good, honest work that benefitted everyone in the camp, and Nigel was determined to do his part of his stay. Nigel did hold back a chuckle at Thana's rebuke towards Atlas, finding the grit and witt in her character befitting. Eventually it was only him and Thana left at the Second Hanging Gardens of Babylon - The Hanging Gardens of Mexico Beach as Nigel would start to call them after that week - and they were back to work. [color=#B8860B]"After I've given nothing but the highest of praises to this Seventh Wonder of the Apocalypse? You truly aim to please, Thana."[/color] Nigel said almost dramatically to the scarred warrior-lady, beginning the process of closing up the slats like she did when it hit him rather awkwardly. [color=#B8860B]"Uhm…I think that short time with Joaquin pulled out the dramatic in me. Sorry. Was that Thalia's brother, Gonzales? I guess his sort are not too far away from my own kin of reenactors then?"[/color] Eventually Nigel had pulled down the last of the tarps of the green house, wiping his brow off the accumelated sweat after this part of the work was done. He too heard the crackle of the speakers, at first wondering what message would be announced to the plebs, before realizing it was just another signal of lunch. Nigel walked over towards Thana in anticipation of their next movements, though the look of concern in her face…well it concerned him too. He was about to ask what the matter was when she reached him and made it clear. Could he swim? Nigel swallowed deeply at the question, a single bead of sweat running down his brow and cheek as he tried to formulate an appropriate respone to Thana. Apparently it was of no concern, though the fact that she asked him that very specific question did stick to him. The neo-Roman let the queston float for a few seconds, before gathering his guts. [color=#B8860B]"Well I can swim…just not terribly well, and not…out too far there."[/color] Nigel responded while pointing his finger off in the distance - at the ocean. Deep waters. Nigel "Hadrian" the sword-wielder was not afraid of many things in life, but water you couldn't stand abreast in? He had some bad memories. [color=#B8860B]"It really depends on what is needed. Just don't go ask me to swim into the middle of the Atlantic Ocean…I'll be fine, I hope."[/color]