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[personal profile] fortitudosalutis 2025-04-20 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
When the commander decides
Or the enemy is dead
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[personal profile] fortitudosalutis 2025-04-20 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
What

[ That -

That's not supposed to happen. Carver nearly sputters, trying and failing to think of a response. ]


Is this a test
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[personal profile] fortitudosalutis 2025-04-20 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
No one outranks you in the command structure

[ And anything the commander decides is as good as God's commandment. But sometimes those orders are tests, too. And Pope so rarely gave them breathing room without some kind of cost. ]

I haven't done anything to earn three days
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[personal profile] fortitudosalutis 2025-04-20 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a long pause. Carver wars with two conflicting impulses. The first, that Harold is the closest thing there is to a commander here and the commander cannot be disobeyed without cost. And the second, that Leah is the commander and Pope before her, and speaking of their methods and means to an outsider is a sin, too. Possibly a worse one. ]

Get really fucked up
Or find a lot of food somewhere
We don't get leave anymore
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[personal profile] fortitudosalutis 2025-04-20 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[ That feels like a goddamn test. A trap for the lazy and the greedy to fall into. But you don't contradict the commander, either. ]

Okay

[ He will not get drunk. He will train relentlessly, as if Pope himself were breathing down his neck. ]
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[personal profile] fortitudosalutis 2025-04-20 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ There's a pause. ]

Yeah
I can do that
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[personal profile] fortitudosalutis 2025-04-21 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I’ll be there