[ There is a pause as Marco seizes the man up. Then, he shrugs, as a teenager wont to do, glancing around warily. ]

So how is the registration going so far? Got any new recruits?

[ Marco can't say he feels entirely comfortable with even talking about joining this Alliance. He never joined anything back home, not at school or anywhere else, excluding the Animorphs. (And even then the Animorphs never counted; it's not like he wanted to get into killing alien slugs as a hobby or career choice.) Volunteering to be a good-doer is more of Cassie's deal, not Marco's. In some ways Marco is a solitary kind of a guy, despite his easy, socializing manner. ]