[quote=@Kensai]

Aurélie favoured Scott with a crooked smile that had broken hearts on three continents. "Mais oui!" she said. "We shall seize the initiative. I would be honoured to lead the SEAD flight. My Papillon is ideal for that mission, and I would like on my wing the lower observable members of the squadron. If possible - " she thought for a moment, then snapped the names off from memory " - Valkyrie with her Gripen, Sparrow with her Typhoon, and one more."

She switched her gaze to Ximena. The smile was still on her lips but it no longer reached her eyes. Blue like the skies when you burst through the clouds. Holding the contact a moment longer than comfortable or polite. 

"That one more, I would like to be you, Lieutenant Huang. I most eagerly await to see what you can do in your Raptor."
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As Aurélie turned that smile on Scott, he could see why it had broken those hearts, she was stunningly beautiful and her mind was as sharp to match. However, now was not the time to dwell on that, and he returned her charming smile with a wolfish, handsome grin of his own as she continued building on their planning session, nodding in agreement with her choices, and that grin spreading further as she singled out Ximena for her part of the op.
"All excellent choices, and appropriate ones for certain," he paused as an alert came up on his personal tablet, giving a satisfied nod as he read the message, looking up at the others in the room with a smile settling on his lips. 
"And adding to the good news; our latest recruits have not long touched down. As soon as they've got their crew rest, we can brief this sortie and get going".
He looked over the charts and pictures once more with a glance as he mused, looking back up to Aurélie with a firm nod. "With you taking the stealthier side of the squadron, I'll lead Peacenik, Kitten, Calico and Griffin and Circuit - our new arrivals in their Tornado - on the attack against the helicopters and any remaining naval assets that have got out to sea. Speaking of our new arrivals, they should be here to introduce themselves shortly". 
Scott ran a hand through his sandy-blond hair, eyes flicking up toward the ceiling as he put some numbers together in his head.
"Let's see... time now is oh-nine-thirty. Griffin and Circuit require a minimum of eight hours uninterrupted rest... seventeen-hundred hours". He tapped fingers against his chin and mused a few more moments. "Preflight mission briefing, preflight checks; add another three hours... Brief at eighteen hundred, wheels-up for twenty-one-hundred hours, giving us an opportunity to attack as darkness is starting to fall. Should give us a chance to catch them as they're just starting to relax and swap personnel onto overnight watches, giving us something of an element of surprise. I'll send it out to the squadron. Good work, Chévy, I knew selecting you as 2IC was a good move," he said with another smile, before picking up his tablet and issuing the relevant orders to the rest of the unit. 

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