What details Iskandar had explained turned is stomach, and made him all the more determined to go with his lover and their friend. As if he would let him walk into something like that alone, and more than that, if it did involve Rifters, he felt an obligation to go.

"We do need to scope out what we're up against," Kirk threw his support to Waver, hoping to keep Iskandar from rushing in head first like a bull. He loved the man, but sometimes it was a difficult thing. "And if we see someone we can rescue, we will be doing so."

Atlas shifted beneath him, sensing his restlessness. "Anyone we rescue might be able to tell us more information about what's happening than we could get from simple observation alone, as well." An element of the pragmatic, though Kirk would have suggested it without too.