No, no. It's not you.
If this can be edited slightly so that everyone realises that the Trogs are not going to be here for a while, like I meant when I introduced them to this particular scene, it should all work fine.
Pyphon can come to get Gabriel, tell him the others are pulling out through the sewers, Gabriel is very relieved because as I stated in my post, he was very anxious to avoid a battle, and Gabe and Syphon pull back with the others.
Simple.
I know Gabriel has a history of fighting the odds, but I was surprised that my words were misinterpretted. I did try to get across the idea that Gabriel didn't want a fight.
Welsh had said this bit was left to me and I thought I would introduce the Trogs but not make a battle the focus - we have fought enough so far. I wanted to tension of a possible coming battle to be the focus, hence no actual fighting in my post.
I added the coming Trogs as a cliffhanger and I wondered what other people would do with it.
So I suggest, we go back and try to fix it so that people don't overract and that the team executes a controlled withdrawal.