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Weiss sat alone in her office, head between her hands. One of the decisive battles of the war had just been fought, and although the heroes had won, it had come at a hefty cost…
Tap, tap. The sound that signalled the beginning of a meeting which she had been dreading. Mostly because she was sure that she wouldn't be able to control herself. "Enter, General Kurtz."
A lithe, mustached man entered the door. His neatly trimmed brown hair and white officer's uniform were what stood out, as he didn't have much in the way of distinguishing features. An "average Atlesian" in most ways, though not all. Light, but not pale skin; grey eyes; and a nose which one could cut oneself on.
"Yes, General Schnee? How may I be of service?" The scowl which Weiss wore shut him up, and he shrunk back in fear as the slightly shorter woman marched towards him.
"You are here because you disobeyed express orders in the middle of an important battle. You were to hold your position. Is the meaning of those 3 words unclear to you?! Because I don't consider running off like you did a way of fulfilling that order!"
"The… the situation was… fluid.", he stammered. Weakly, he continued, "We… faced… threats which we weren't prepared for… I thought that… we should send.. intel.. back"
"BULLSHIT!" The sudden shout caused Kurtz to drop to the floor. "You had your orders. You were meant to follow them. As a result of your insubordination, General Rose is dead, and we've lost two thirds of our soldiers! We barely managed to win, and only because Ruby… General Rose was somehow able to hold on without your support… at least for a while." Her voice broke and trailed off as she reached the final sentence.
"By all rights, I should court martial you." The man cowered even more, as he found a rapier suddenly hovering an inch from his eyes. "But I won't. We can't afford to lose anyone else now due to the large number of casualties which we suffered - entirely preventable casualties, which only occurred because of your cowardice! I should skewer that useless lump between your eyes, since you don't seem to use it!"
Sighing, Weiss lowered her rapier. "But I won't, since that would cause even more of a mess. And besides, I'd have to go for some other part of your body - if I do it, I'd like to leave something for Generals Arc, Valkyrie, Ren, and especially Generals Xiao-Long and Belladonna. Believe me, convincing them not to cause severe harm to you while you were in the hospital was… extremely difficult."
She then pointed her rapier at the door. "Get out. Leave this base. In fact, leave this country, before I change my mind and decide to rid you of that extraneous mush in your head."
Gulping, Kurtz nodded, and ran out of the door as fast as he can. Weiss, mustering all of her willpower not to chase after him, shut the door, locked it and sat down at her desk.
And for the next hour or so, anyone who passed by General Schnee's office would have heard loud sobbing.