"It's like this often then?" Or is this just the latest outbreak of tension? Some of the people he's tried to speak to about it are closed-lipped, and others too steeped in their own point of view. Finding the middle ground, the aggregate where a more true picture of this place is presented, has proven difficult thus far.

And it's not like that little gang was going to stop and explain themselves either before or after he intervened.

"I'm a soldier," he says finally. "I have a specific specialty. It's not important here." Unless of course he'd been brought here because he's an assassin; that thought had crossed his mind.