>>5646450>>5646952>GREENHORNThe time spent in orbit above the Thrice-forsaken jungle you’d been dropped into had been filled with nothing but jibs and jabs at your inexperience. You’d taken your licks on the chin, smiling and calling back when necessary. After all, there was plenty to call out about your oh-so-experienced comrades. Blue had been the most vocal, but he’d also suffered the worst of your comebacks, when your name was so decidedly Aerlythic as Thingolthin and you behaved in a way that almost seemed to advertise that you thought you were a member of the ruling caste, it was easy to insult your comrades. It also made you an exceptionally easy mark.
“Get fucked,” Had been the last words he’d said to you before you’d each strapped into your pods.
He’d not noticed your trembling arms or the sweat that seemed to pool across your brow. Only Candlestick had seen that, his dark eyes piercing behind the medical HUD. The XO slapped you hard on the shoulders and grinned, revealing broken teeth, “Don’t sweat the nerves, kid, I always get nervey before a drop. Just clench your pucker t’save from shitting yourself and we’ll be in the greenery before you have time to piss yourself.”
