That's one reason. The other is to impress the girl he happens to like, usually because he thinks he has a shot with her.
[Her words and the sigh was rather telling that Ava and this Alexei had clearly liked each other, so much so as to enter into a suicide mission with no clear facts and no team to back them up. It was likely a testament to their own skills that they hadn't been killed along with Alexei.
And the idea that the dead kid was just another brainwashed servant to the Soviets didn't pass his notice either. Likely, like so many others, the kid had been planted and it might have actually saved everyone a lot of heartache that he had died when he did, but he wasn't about to point that out. Alexei was a sore subject.]
He wasn't a martyr; he was a soldier. And sometimes soldiers have the make the hard calls for the greater good of the mission.
[He had a feeling that Alexei would have something to say about Ava dragging the guy into much of anything. People didn't wander into those situations without having some clue how it was about to go and very few would also run around to draw fire if they didn't understand the implications of the choice.]
People in grief need to blame someone or something in order to process. They tend to lash out at the closest thing to an answer that they have. Don't take it personally because in the end, drawing fire was Alexei's choice. We can only respect those choices.
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[Her words and the sigh was rather telling that Ava and this Alexei had clearly liked each other, so much so as to enter into a suicide mission with no clear facts and no team to back them up. It was likely a testament to their own skills that they hadn't been killed along with Alexei.
And the idea that the dead kid was just another brainwashed servant to the Soviets didn't pass his notice either. Likely, like so many others, the kid had been planted and it might have actually saved everyone a lot of heartache that he had died when he did, but he wasn't about to point that out. Alexei was a sore subject.]
He wasn't a martyr; he was a soldier. And sometimes soldiers have the make the hard calls for the greater good of the mission.
[He had a feeling that Alexei would have something to say about Ava dragging the guy into much of anything. People didn't wander into those situations without having some clue how it was about to go and very few would also run around to draw fire if they didn't understand the implications of the choice.]
People in grief need to blame someone or something in order to process. They tend to lash out at the closest thing to an answer that they have. Don't take it personally because in the end, drawing fire was Alexei's choice. We can only respect those choices.