His mind cannot help but rush ahead, not tactical, only strategic: the kind of fundamental addition of simple facts that any military man thus elevated need consider. However their assault plays out, they’re like to be deeply embedded in it without rest until nightfall— or longer.
Yet he ought to say more, of course. That is the nature of conversation, even if its finer points elude him, traipsing from one thought to the next. Only every thought that comes to mind is one he cannot voice, a byproduct of their entire mission. Confidentiality. Or...part of a past neither of them would feel at ease discussing.
So instead he finds himself staring at her for far too long a time, blatant about it as he silently chews.
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His mind cannot help but rush ahead, not tactical, only strategic: the kind of fundamental addition of simple facts that any military man thus elevated need consider. However their assault plays out, they’re like to be deeply embedded in it without rest until nightfall— or longer.
Yet he ought to say more, of course. That is the nature of conversation, even if its finer points elude him, traipsing from one thought to the next. Only every thought that comes to mind is one he cannot voice, a byproduct of their entire mission. Confidentiality. Or...part of a past neither of them would feel at ease discussing.
So instead he finds himself staring at her for far too long a time, blatant about it as he silently chews.