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</div><br/><div style="text-align: center">《 Armando &amp; Marcia》<br/>
Location: Abendblume<br/>
Present: Rebel <a class="username" data-user-id="6997" data-username="Traveler" data-xf-init="member-tooltip" href="https://blackdahliaroleplaying.com/members/6997/">Traveler</a>​</div><br/>Armando looked to the notebook between them.<br/><br/>"I'm fine. A little restless, but I'll sort that out. It was bound to happen considering the past day," Armando said, watching the plates that came down in front of them. Marcia brought coffee next, and then sat down with her own plate. She had turned her chair, more towards the window of the resort suite with with elbow leaned against the table, listening to the exchange between the two of them.<br/><br/>"Hale would not prefer that," Armando pointed out. "And I am not so sure that this won't be permanent. He's just going to say expect Alvaro to step down once this has run its course?" He shook his head. "There is no going back to how things were. We shouldn't go back, and right now, with Hale using a man like Alvaro, Abendlume is going in the<i>wrong </i>direction. I worry for extremes." Armando had been the one to curb some of Hale's ideas. With Alvaro at his side he could only imagine the ideas the two would come up with together.<br/><br/>"Alvaro has only ever done what Hale has<i>ordered</i>him to do," Marcia pointed out. Armando saw him as a dangerous criminal, but Marcia saw who held his leash. Armando shook his head.<br/><br/>"Do we want Abendblume run like a Mexican cartel?" Armando countered, "That is the influence that I worry about."<br/><br/>"It might be an improvement," Marcia scoffed.<br/><br/>"Some change does need to be made," Armando said to Rebel. "In my report I included names of those that I felt needed to be pulled from duty.  I don't know how you can do it without making it look like it came direct from me, but they have no business in positions of power. Under a man like Alvaro will only give them a greater sense of being untouchable. This isn't a game. Maybe if there were greater consequences in place, for what happened with Brian.. What Ray did..." He sighed. "We know Hale won't make an example of Ray. But there are other battles, like removing the man who shot Brian from his position. Better protocol training."