A small introduction to the "world" before our next story :
Welcome, reader! These stories are set circa 2048 and circa the current day. Yes, and. You will be warned when a story is occuring. Most of the stories will be oneshots, most likely angst.
The story has already opened with the death of our hero, whose name is yet to be revealed. Now, to the reflections of one who she knew well...
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Pteropus giganteus
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The bat's wings in flight
Echo the wind,
And what the wind comes bearing
Today.
"Flight of Bat and Tongue of Bird," Emily Rockbridge
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You're -- sorry, were -- one of the best pilots I ever knew. Not including myself, of course.
Really, girl. Pulling off a barrel roll your first time in the cockpit and not tossing your cookies -- it took even me, the Almighty Mina, five tries to get over the nausea.
And come on -- it's hard to keep in formation in zero-grav. Someone always screws it up, and before you know it, half the wing is on the other side of the base.
But not for you.
For a girl coming from a past running from everything, you had a surprising amount of -- whatever it is they call that ability to stand up to stuff. Courage, maybe.
What else is it called when you're chained to a chair (which is, in turn, bolted to the floor) and your greatest enemy tells you calmly that she intended everything to go down this way and you restrain the urge to snap the chains and break her neck?
I always knew that my friends were going to die before I did, and they always would, but this is the first time it's happened.
So forgive my tears, friend.
I have class to teach, anyway.
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:cough: Okay, so a little incomprehensible. I'll break it down.
A wing is about 300 - 500 pilots/infantry/whatever. I have never been militarily minded.
Our narrator is over 100 years old at the time. She is a vampire. Don't ask where I got this from; I have no idea.
After the "other side" won the war (yes, we'll get to that, I swear), the space base Mina worked at was converted to a school. A very... prestigious school. And, being the war hero she is (I swear, we'll get to it), she was hired to teach.
Even though she looks in the area of 20.
Yep, it's a screwed up universe she lives in.
More next time, and please God let someone have reviewed!