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> SELECTED: “I’ve some sway with the hardliners sir, mostly the Red Hand and some of the other veterans. Breaker may know my name, but I didn’t realise he was giving us another seat at the table.” That was an honest to God smirk from the LT at your antics. But now it’s all business. [Firebrand]
<span class="mu-i">“I’ve some sway with the hardliners sir, mostly the Red Hand and some of the other veterans. Breaker may know my name, but I didn’t realise he was giving us another seat at the table.”</span> You shirk away from the temptation to chip further away at the LT’s cold exterior, he’s the sort that prefers competence over comedy.
<span class="mu-i">“He’s not.”</span> Lieutenant ‘Boy’ Blue looks at you pointedly. <span class="mu-i">“The rebel leadership has politely requested you take my stead tonight. Ostensibly there is some recognition in order for your contributions to the cause, but I suspect they may want a second opinion from their off-worlder advisors.”</span>
You’re not a political aficionado by anyone’s reckoning, least of all yours, but even you can pick up on the implied snub.
<span class="mu-i">“Just me?”</span> You try not to gulp at the prospect of representing the Company interests, even just for the one war council sitting.
<span class="mu-i">“Wasp will be there as well.”</span> Again something in the LT’s tone, and the way he glanced at the tent entrance, gives you’re the impression you won’t exactly have anyone holding your hand at the council meet.
Wasp is a Pathfinder, one of the long-term operatives that the Company has dotted all over the ‘verse to keep their finger in whatever pies are to be had or, more literally, early recon and networking in the pre-operation phase for whatever theatre is getting an imminent delivery of far-less-subtle mercenary sorts. He was contact with the local rebels when this all began, isolated and poorly organised as they were, and has been with them through thick and thin. Your forces may have been here for months on end, but he’s been here even longer than that. Just how long, you aren’t sure. Long enough to go native maybe, a concern that both you and the LT have been harbouring between the two of you for a while now.
Hardly the juncture to voice those misgivings now though, given said Pathfinder and a host of other subordinate Lieutenant’s and their Corporals are now filing through as the Company briefing is set to commence. Probably time to change the subject.
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