They’d been looking for him for a while, though he’d only just returned to Coastside. ‘I’m Alann.’ Alann introduced himself. Aleitar set down his mug and shook his hand, introducing himself. And so on for the entire squad. ‘Do you know why we’re here?’ Alann asked him. Aleitar nodded as he glanced at their faces in turn. ‘Yeah, there’s been a lot of talk. Hey, some friendly advice, you need to watch yourselves.’ ‘What do you mean?’ Alann asked, narrowing his eyes. He noted the man was drinking alcohol. ‘I mean Commander Reista ordered everyone to play nice, but the submariners are getting… they’re not…’ he hesitated. ‘Look,’ he started again. ‘I’m from Astar too, I know how shocking this place is at first. But you guys need to calm down and stop insulting everything and everyone here. We lost a lot of people in the Molk attack. Let’s just say if you guys all went home in boxes nobody here’d care.’ Alann observed him coolly for a few moments.
