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There was time to talk. Time you intended to use. “So uh,” you coughed, “Hey, let’s go up to the top of the tank, yeah?”
“It doesn’t have a name?” Magnus asked quizzically, “I thought you usually named your vehicles. Wasn’t this one’s name something like…I’m unsure, but it was something crude relating to breasts.”
“It had to get painted over anyways,” you said, “So the new name’s <span class="mu-i">Hintern-Bastard</span>.”
Magnus scrunched his face up. “Why are you like this? Was there a crasser name that you passed over before that one?”
“What, not into bastards now?” You said with a bit of sullenness. The Hogs had liked it. “Hey, help me up, I can’t climb up with this thing on.” It would get grease all over it for sure, and even if this dress wasn’t your style at all, it’d make Van Halm a bit upset to know you ruined it. The stain still hadn’t quite bleached out out of the shawl the mosshead got for you back in Sosaldt, during the so-called Alpha Two operation.
Magnus picked you up by the waist- the way his firm hands gripped onto your abdomen and effortlessly lifted you mad you think funny thoughts, and you stumbled slightly when finding your feet on the top of the hull. Magnus climbed after you, and both of you sat on top of the turret.
“Anyways,” you said, “How was the trip over here? Last I heard, the border between Strossvald and Netilland wasn’t a nice place to pass through. ‘Specially if you’re a pepperhead.”
“Once, certainly,” Magnus admitted casually, “Now, however, there is a temporary understanding. Old grudges do not vanish readily, but since men of the Archduchy aided in the defeat of the Military Council, and in the chaos afterwards, a callous grab for land was not made, there is more peace than there was before. As well as the concerns to the east. The people of Netilland are not so fearful of the Archduchy’s perfidious scheming right now. There is a greater enemy. I trust you’ve read a newspaper at least once in the preceding months, but I do not know how much the Archduchy thinks of this crisis.”
