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.

Comments

[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.