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The aunties can make Game of Thrones look like Dora the Explorer, but that's not the point.
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Does he honestly think he's still in charge?" Mashona wondered. "He thinks Human's First has an apostrophe."
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What about some kind of an ancient curse?'' Ancient Curse Kills Two. He could see the headlines now. ''Don't be an asshole.'' The reporter snatched the microphone to safety just in time and, smiling pleasantly, asked, '' Can I quote you on that, Detective?'' Celluci's smile was just as sincere. ''You can tattoo it on your chest.
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Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely?
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Bardic oaths weren't made to Shkoder, they were just made.
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what-is-right-and-wrong
promise
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She wants me," he said conversationally to the crewman who'd arrived in time to hear the parting remark. The crewman stared at him for a moment and then burst out laughing."
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I'll send three of Harnet's Di'taken. I have it on good authority that they think the sun shines out of my ass." Pole leaned forwards just enough to bring the major into his line of sight. Pole - "All of them?" Torrin - "Some of them are officers and thus blinded by the sun shining out of their own asses." Pole - "Did you just say that?" Torrin - "Yeah," Torrin offered him her hand. "Get over it."
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Safe from what? she'd asked. And under her touch, Kovar's kigh had answered, "Change"."
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change
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Experience had taught her that an enthusiastic officer was a bad thing; an enthusiastic idiot in a captain's uniform was a
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Good luck, then." "Thank you, sir. You, too." "We'll need it. We're short a gunnery sergeant." When Torin lifted a brow, High Tekamal Louden grinned. "Yes, well, that sounded a lot less lame in my head."
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While it was a truism throughout most of known space that the shortest distance between two points was a straight line, it was equally true as far as the Corps was concerned that the shortest distance between two points had probably been mined.
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Does the military even have a position between going all out and casualty?" Dr. Sloan wondered-her thoughts apparently having been following the same paths. "Yes, ma'am. We in the Corps refer to that position as being in the Navy."
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Lieutenant Commander Sibley added a few final flourishes as he brought the Jade up to cruising speed. "If you have to hurl, Staff Sargent, bite the black tab at the base of your faceplate. It'll open a pouch." No answer. Not even the sound of a lost lunch. "Staff?" Her telltales were green. She was conscious. Heart pumping at sixty/sixty. Respiration slow and steady. Then it dawned on him. While he'd been flying a pattern designed to test t..
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It is a great blow to the ego, Sssergeant, to dissscover that you are, after all, not unique." He looked up, his tongue flickering. "I am, however, mossstly recovered."
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All things are within the Circle. That is the very Center of what we believe. If all things are not enclosed, then there is no Circle.
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And the politicians will note your protest, and it won't make a damned bit of difference.
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You guys only knew him for a week." "No." Torin waited until Ryder had hold of both handles, then she stepped away. "We knew him his whole life."
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Well?" Shylin fell into step beside him as Sibley came out into the passage. "How long?" "Would you believe eight inches?" "No." "As big as a baby's arm?" "Sib." "Chief says it'll be done when it's done."
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She says the design's damned near idiot proof." The stern rose and fell. "Did something just go poink?" Torin asked. "Because, generally, that's not a good sound."
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Did you pull rank?" "On a chief warrant officer?" They'd reached the link, and he slapped the call button. "Do I look suicidal?"
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That was opportunity knocking." She shoved the last empty coffee pouch into her pack. "You didn't answer, so it's buggered off to find someone who appreciates it."
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arranging to be emotionally tortured for four years by basketball loving escapees from the Silmarillion.
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Torin had never been a great believer in luck, preferring to trust in training, preparation, and strong artillery support, but it was impossible to deny the good fortune that had caused them to crash precisely where they had.
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although the secrets governments kept were generally about money wasted on dumbass ideas while social services held bake sales.
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Is this what it's like all the time?" Being covered in someone else's blood trying to juryrig a solution before artillery blows us to hell? The silent corollary was almost louder than the actual question. Torin raised an eyebrow and snorted. "Of course not. Sometimes it gets exciting."
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Please," Torin grinned. "Tech's a crutch. An unarmed Marine in underwear can deal with anything the universe can dish out." "Vacuum?" "For that, we'd also need boots." "So we can die with them on?" "Pretty much."
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Old soldier's trick, sir. Sleep when you can." "You're not sleeping, Staff." "Staff sergeants never sleep, sir." "Ever vigilant?" "You've been reading the brochure."
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Holy fuk." Lieutenant Jarret snorted. "Private Checya, I think you've just expressed the official reaction."
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We've only been here a few hours, and we spent most of that time playing toy soldiers. How did the sergeant find that stuff out so fast?" Hollice shrugged. "It's a gift. Let's just hope he never uses it for evil."
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don't mind admitting I'd feel better if I was just a little more mobile and about thirty thousand feet up." "Look at the bright side, sir. If you get shot down here, it'll hurt a lot less when you hit the ground." After a startled moment, he found a smile. "Thank you, Staff Sergeant." "You're welcome, sir."
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Five adults, a Leprechaun, a Dragon Prince, and two toddlers required a lot of French toast, but with Allie on one grill and Katie on the other, Graham beating the eggs, Charlie pouring juice, Auntie Gwen setting the table, Joe dealing with the coffee maker, and Jack watching the twins, breakfast got made.
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this situation was tailor-made for that last lesson in Combat Morale, "If you're going to die anyway, see to it that your people die with dry underwear and a smile." --
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You are here." Torin would have bet her pension that the graffiti scrawled next to it in a script she didn't recognize said, "And your luggage is in Antares," or a variation thereof."
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We are using these to follow the Others home. We are maybe using these to end the war." "We are maybe using these to die in a new and exciting way."
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Going to tell us why you think so, Gunny?" "I expect the belief is based on years and years of experience combined with a number of subliminal clues that I'm not consciously aware of." "Gut feeling?" Mike asked in the stunned silence that followed her declaration. "Pretty much, yeah."
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Sometimes the gods smile," he grunted. "Yes, sir." And sometimes they kick you over and stomp you flat."
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Mind you," he continued, "with this particular high ground what's likely to be said is, 'Help, I'm falling."
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You make it sound so simple." "Well, it's war; it's not rocket science." Then the memory of what had once been accomplished by three Marines with a surface-to-air missile launcher, a game chip, and the guts from a field kitchen twisted her mouth into a grin. "Usually," she repeated."
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You lot are luckier than you deserve to be, and if you ever again put me in the position where I've got to kiss up to an officer--any officer--to save your sorry butts, I am going to make your lives so goddamned miserable you're going to beg to be dropped into the front lines stark naked and armed with a sponge just to get away from me. Do I make myself clear?
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Discretion doesn't really apply to giant, flying, fire-breathing lizards who very nearly removed my fucking eyebrows,
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Allie accepted it as her due that the plane had been overbooked and they were bumping her to first class. Or business class. Or whatever they were now calling those seats an adult could actually fit into.
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Charlie considered showing up in time for dinner to be quite domestic enough, thanks very much.
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Which means," he continued, removing his arm and turning to the CSO, "you won't freeze or asphyxiate before they blow you up."
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Wishing she could spare a mouthful of water, she looked down at the body. "We will not forget. We will not fail you."
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