Despite his own steady anger toward his the Federation command and anyone who either accidentally or purposely let such catastrophic orders go through, Baxter kept his distance from William and Isabel, seeing that those two in particular were dealing with a lot of anger and frustration toward more than events than he honestly even cared about. She mentioned something about the leader of the Stalkers, but, knowing that man's track record, the former Zeon would have been more surprised if there wasn't someone who base who had been affected by those atrocities. He was very much ready to echo her sentiments of disgust and rebellion over their very own base commander not even having the full details of the operation, and maybe add in a choice anecdote to show he wouldn't stick around with a group he didn't trust, but Makoto soon took his attention away and was greeted with a frown.<br/><br/>"If it's important enough to step away from this," he told the sharpshooter, allowing him to lead Baxter wherever he wanted to go to talk.