"You're telling me this is a recruitment?"  She didn't sound like she<em>disbelieved</em>him, really -- after all, he oozed sincerity from every pore -- but the whole situation was a little bizarre.  No one seemed to take issue with the notion that she was better than the rest of her unit, though.  The Whitewater squad was slow to leave their cover.<br/><br/>"So what's your...organization's involvement, here?  I've got months left on my contract...this is pretty irregular even by our standards."