《 Alvaro 》<br/>Location: Abendblume<br/>Present: Rebel, Dan<a class="username" data-user-id="6997" data-username="Traveler" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/6997/">Traveler</a><br/><br/><br/><div class="bbm_float fright" style="float:right;margin:0 0 5px 10px">
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</div>So much had changed in the span of less than an hour and Alvaro found himself suddenly in a position of authority and voice with a mission to help strengthen Abendblume alongside Rebel, a man he knew very little about and even less about the man alongside him, Dan. He walked briskly through the halls of the resort, something he'd rarely done at all, let alone during the daylight while everyone was about their daily business. He was the 'bogey man' of Abendblume 'the Felon' no one had ever really seen if they were on the right side of Hale. Most people were. Hale wasn't a monster. Alvaro had known true monsters, and Hale was far from it. The man was practicality personified and calculated when necessary. Abendblume wouldn't have even existed for survivors hadn't it been for his willingness to accommodate strangers and take calculated risks for the maximum rewards. It would have been so easy for him to have holed up with his family and armed men living like royalty on hoarded resources. But he hadn't. He brought people in and kept them up until it was no longer feasible to keep going.<br/><br/>Perhaps Rebel was right about the delivery, he hadn't been there for that, but he had been there for the initial discussions and Hale coming to terms with what had to be done. The choice of who was being let go was Hale's decision alone and not one he'd taken lightly. Like all of his decisions, it was made with practicality in mind. Rebel was most certainly right about Abendblume's security and Alvaro wasn't sure how things were in such a state of shambles. It wasn't a question worth pursuing. The past was the past and his job involved the future.<br/><br/>Once outside, Alvaro stopped on the long wide steps of the resort's main entrance and took in a long deep breath of fresh air, and smiled. He was optimistic even if a little nervous about the immediate future and how they'd all manage to work together when it was obvious there was more of a feeling of kinship with Armando between Rebel and Dan. Armando was a good man and he couldn't fault the two guards for feeling that way. He even felt that way himself despite Armando's misguided guile for him.<br/><br/>After the refreshing breath, he took a few bounding steps down to the main walk and veered off to walk along the grass. He moved at a brisk and energized pace, but not one the other men couldn't keep up with. When they'd moved away from the general populace and had the privacy to speak openly and uninterrupted, Alvaro slowed to a stop and turned to face Rebel and Dan. He leaned back into a casual stance and pulled a cigarette from a pack he kept in the side pocket and lit it while offering the pack up should either of the other men feel so inclined. He hadn't been assigned to PR, for very good reasons, but even though it wasn't a skill he excelled at, there were the tiniest cracks forming on the surface of Abendblume and while Ray Jr would address that with the people, he knew he had to address it with the men, Rebel specifically. If they couldn't come together, there could be trouble.<br/><br/>"This looks like as good a place as any to talk," he said as he hooked his thumbs in his belt loops with the smoke dangling loosely from the fingers of his left hand. If there was one thing that Alvaro<i>did</i>excel at, aside from his job skills, it was compartmentalizing and if the direction of the wind could be changed with the snap of a finger, so too could Alvaro's focus. Hale had snapped his fingers and all of Alvaro's guarded menace shifted to something inclusive, open, and goal-oriented.<br/><br/>"I was not expecting this change of command and it looks like neither were either of you. But still, we've been tasked with an important job. We're not just moving into new positions, we have to reinvent how things were previously done. It's important we understand each other. I have questions. Maybe you do, too. Rebel," he nodded to the man with a little side-to-side bob of his head as thoughts clicked through his mind and rolled off his tongue in his distinct, but not impedingly thick accent, "I don't know much about you, only what I have come to know of you over the last few days and that Senor Hale thought enough of you to put you in charge of the outside guard. That's a big deal," he nodded more, a thoughtful clarity washing over his sharp eyes, "You have training, I can see that. I feel it's either American military, police, or maybe both." He held up his right hand gesturing between an invisible 'one or the other maybe both' motion. He didn't have an agent feel to him, agents were sneaky with a crusader complex. Rebel seemed more nuts and bolts.<br/><br/>Dan was none of those things, but he wasn't working on Dan just yet.[/float_right][/float_right]