[ She doesn't hesitate to say it, both because she believes it wholeheartedly and she feels the need to defend her squad. ] We were all training to be officers. I think--
[ It's hard, talking about him in the past tense. But it's impossible to talk about him in the present. She was there in that locker room, kneeling over his body, not three days ago. For a second she feels dizzy.
She's learned to battle the impulses of her own body, to push through when she thought she couldn't hang on any longer. She does that now, taking a deep, quiet breath and finding the stillness she associates with calm. (It isn't calm, not really, it's a sheet of ice over rushing water and one of these days it's going to break.) ]
He could have been great. Corbulo teaches... taught us to win, to want to win. Victory was always the objective. He jumped too quickly when he thought it was close.
[ It was what got him killed. ] You... [ She's desperately curious, now. ] You were in training, before this place?
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[ She doesn't hesitate to say it, both because she believes it wholeheartedly and she feels the need to defend her squad. ] We were all training to be officers. I think--
[ It's hard, talking about him in the past tense. But it's impossible to talk about him in the present. She was there in that locker room, kneeling over his body, not three days ago. For a second she feels dizzy.
She's learned to battle the impulses of her own body, to push through when she thought she couldn't hang on any longer. She does that now, taking a deep, quiet breath and finding the stillness she associates with calm. (It isn't calm, not really, it's a sheet of ice over rushing water and one of these days it's going to break.) ]
He could have been great. Corbulo teaches... taught us to win, to want to win. Victory was always the objective. He jumped too quickly when he thought it was close.
[ It was what got him killed. ] You... [ She's desperately curious, now. ] You were in training, before this place?