Yeah, there was an awful lot of kissing Alex considering she totally killed Blair. I can understand why the intellectual knowledge that she has a can of world-killing gas might not penetrate the primal instinct to Protect (/Make Out With) Other Sentinel, but you'd think the Avenge Guide's Death instinct would kick in. Maybe Blair's being actually alive mitigates that somewhat.

Tangentially, how come Alex doesn't have a Protect the Tribe instinct? How are Sentinels chosen anyway? I thought Jim's desire to protect and serve and his Sentinel abilities informed each other somehow. It would still have been possible to make an evil/twisted Sentinel who did do the whole tribal protection thing, like a gang leader or mob boss or something.

Oh well. Missed opportunities is what fic is for, I guess.