Author's notes: Prompt #1425, danger zone, from the lj community, all_unwritten. This drabble hand counted as 100 words.
Disclaimer: I don't own them; ITC/Grenada does at the moment. I'm just writing about them.
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The Danger Zone.
That's what we call it. A nice generic name for whatever we're going to face, a phrase whose meaning has long been leached away. It tucks the situation into a neat, sanitary package, hiding the mud, the blood, the flames, and frozen darkness. In those three words we fold the dead, the dying, the devastated, and the few, lucky, unscathed survivors. All we experience, the joys, despair, the screams seared into our memories are smoothly covered as we relive them in debriefing. Every failure and triumph alike are wrapped up in three little words... the Danger Zone.