4/16; group text to ivan, gregor & bel

[forwardmomentum]

We have a problem.

[ attached is an image of a case of 18 fast-penta hyposprays...except it's empty for all but one. ]

Please tell me you guys have the rest.

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[whatdidisay]

( he's not dignifying the first statement with an answer. )

Kitchen freezer. Loki has it.

[forwardmomentum]

Seriously? Go figure.

Well, I don't see any reason to move it. Unless it's to hock it out an airlock. I'm tempted.

[whatdidisay]

Isn't it a historical artifact?

[forwardmomentum]

Do you see Duv Galeni around here?

[whatdidisay]

What do you think he'll do to you if he shows up and finds out?

[forwardmomentum]

He'd be too preoccupied with the potential security disasters around Gregor, because that'd make him the ranking ImpSec officer and it'd officially be his problem. So I'd imagine he'd go all red in the face and sputter out some incredulous editorial before he ran off to have a heart attack in the line of duty.

[whatdidisay]

Next time you wonder why none of your COs like you, and several have attempted to kill you, I want you to come back to this moment.

He probably would, though.

[forwardmomentum]

I didn't say I wished it on the man. Actually, if Galeni showed up I'd feel kind of bad for him. A Komarran ImpSec agent in charge of Gregor's personal security with no infrastructure and very little in the way of support? I'm fairly certain that is one of his very specific personal nightmares.

[whatdidisay]

I'm pretty sure knowing you expanded his list at least ten-fold. He wasn't a bad CO before you came along, you know. Just a man with a giant stick up his ass.

( ivan actually liked him, and galeni didn't think much of anything towards ivan one way or the other except occasional exasperation. which ivan's ok with, on the whole. )

[forwardmomentum]

I didn't think he was a bad CO, not once I got to know him, anyway. What, that stick hasn't loosened any since I left London?

[ he liked galeni too. there really was something about the mutual confinement and torture that built a certain bond between two men. not his preferred method of bonding, but hey. ]

[whatdidisay]

Oh yeah, he was a lot more friendly after everything went down. What do you think, Miles?

[forwardmomentum]

I don't know, I thought it might have knocked a few walls down. Camaraderie under fire, and all that. Well, after the fire, I guess.

[whatdidisay]

I'm pretty sure he was too busy sorting through the remains of his life, his identity, and the paperwork to do much bonding. And he shoved half of that last part on me, no thanks to you.

[forwardmomentum]

That's a shame. I was hoping he'd loosened up a bit after that fight with the Cetagandan attache. You should've seen him. Did I ever tell you how he smashed that Ceta's head right against the hood of a groundcar? Kind of terrifying, actually.

[whatdidisay]

Probably deeply satisfying for him, too.