Eisen wasn't totally sure of the company he kept on this vessel. True, he'd been a prime force in assaulting the German war machine, and he hated the Germans just as much as anyone - indeed moreso, for his personal ties to the country - but he still felt as though he wasn't fully trusted by people. It was a well-established fact that even the English military, his firmest and oldest allies in his one-man espionage-military struggle against the current ruling force of his home country, didn't hold him n high trust. But still, they'd asked him, somewhat desperate sounding, to join this expedition, and the stakes were supposedly high. He recognized people there, but hadn't the gall to actually speak to them.
One spoke to the room at large, and he made a start as if to speak, then decided against it somewhat more shyly than he'd liked to have shown. A second thought made him slip the broken trench knives he'd been fingering back into the belt loosely set around the waist of his fatigues. They were lucky, from his father, who used them in the first war, broken because his father had snapped one blade off inside an enemy. He'd broken the other one off inside a German spy, so they were now basically brass knuckles. As for the fatigues, he wore little else, ever, unless needed, always with dark gray or black tank tops or tight t-shirts, and his fatigue coat covering the thick but not bulky leather coat that had saved him a few times. Slinging the coat off his shoulder and around to the back of a chair, he sat leaning forward with his cup half empty (the coffee was damned disgusting) and in an accent that could hardly be recognized as German (sounding a bit English, a bit American with a German tinge and absolutely no slang), responded to the man, and felt just a bit of tension ease off of his shoulders already. "Yes, which is somewhat of a relief. It's just as wild as Europe, but even so, it seems a little more peaceful here, if only such innocence could cloud the reality of what we're here to do... or, whatever a group like us is intended to do..."