Another survival

[dolorous_sensei]

1. "DODS guns... eyeballs... Hey, cut it out! I'm trying to work here!"

*Walt lifts his eyes from his notepad to yell toward the group of people playing three-on-three basketball in the hangar, near the line of Genoaces.

The 8th Genoace team glance at him for a second, before continue laughing and playing their game, leaving Walt back to his grumbling and writing.*



" ....grumble... mumble... .good for nothing... bunch of... insensitive..."



" grumble....stupid ....survivors.... Thank you for surviving this far...."

2.Talk to the basketball players? Or even join them?

Comments

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[glorystargo]

I know that feel.

[Denzel shakes his fist at the player in faux-anger.]

What're you working on?

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[dolorous_sensei]

What feel?

I'm just working on the report on the latest sortie. It was really something.

[glorystargo]

I can believe it. And I'm talking about a feel when you try to do something useful, but your team thinks it's best time to act like damn fools and distract you.

You know, like half the things Toby does.

[dolorous_sensei]

*Cough* Oh that feel yeah, totally what I just felt, nothing else.

*Walt looks kinda embarrassed for some reason.*

[glorystargo]

Yeah. There is totally just that. Nothing else.

[Denzel smiles knowingly.]

Those reports really must look like some weird shit for people who weren't there. Do you think they even believe us?

[dolorous_sensei]

Even I sometimes don't believe my own reports.

[glorystargo]

Well, trust me. They really happened.

Unless you're making up fairy tales to put there, that is.

[dolorous_sensei]

Reading our mission reports, sometimes I don't know how they're not a gibbering wreck.

And... how they're still alive.

[glorystargo]

A mix of good teamwork, and just a little bit of luck.

[dolorous_sensei]

Is that how you're still alive too?

[glorystargo]

I like to think that I'm too handsome to die.

But yeah, mostly that.

[dolorous_sensei]

Don't say that. Next, you'll get your face scarred, and you'll lose your survival power!

[glorystargo]

I don't mind. Scars only add manly appear, an aura of rogueishness.

... Oh God, I sounded like Toby just now.

[dolorous_sensei]

It's depressing how little we can control about our survivability. Do you think those NUNE soldiers who got disintegrated by the Indalph have less teamwork, or are just less handsome than us?

[glorystargo]

That's where the "little bit of luck" part comes in.

It's the harsh reality of the battlefield. Sometimes the enemy just goes - swoosh! And there you go. There's no time to react even.

[dolorous_sensei]

It's bad enough when you're a lone soldier, but when you're a leader, your subordinates trust their life on your command. But no matter how coordinated or good your teamwork is, you still can die at any moment. How can you explain that to your subordinates?

[glorystargo]

Good question. That's what makes a good soldier, to know that you can die but still keep doing. That Toby idiot probably thinks he's immortal...

But you had enough rambling from me. If you ask me? You can keep telling your guys as long as you want, but they won't really understand what it really means until they experience loss personally.

Harsh, I know.

[dolorous_sensei]

I guess until then I can let them wallow in their false sense of security.