Have an unhealthy pattern show up in Gabe's records? I mean, if they're dismantling some people, wouldn't it make sense for everyone's history to be picked over? And if they were in the middle of a war, it might not have been looked at too closely as a whole because people have better things to worry about. So, someone runs over Gabe's file (with a fine tooth comb for the first time) and notices something weird.


An absurd number of times with him being the only person in his unit hospitalized (misdirected rage, probably fucked up feeling of self worth, put himself in the line of fire over squad-mates too many times), or times where he managed to...hell, I don't know, avoid enemy patrols because pseudo-elves don't ping like humans? Some weird pattern that keeps cropping up that nobody thought to look up before. He gets pulled in, it gets thrown in front of him, and it's hard to lie your way passed hard data, especially if that data is trying REALLY hard to prove something you hate about yourself.