Chapters tagged aftermath

by pwizdelf

Chapter 7

===32 Wintertide 1378========== I stood shaking on Curry’s kitchen step, arms crossed and hugging myself nervously, hoping desperately that he was home, and hadn’t decided to get a pint with somebody from the Fourth, or some other kind of detour. But he answered the door after o...

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Chapter 8

By the time Curry knocked gently on the door, then nudged it open with a tray in hand, I was feeling a bit more like a person again than a doll somebody had played too rough with and tossed aside, and the steaming hot warmth of the water had made me pink all over and a bit less s...

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Chapter 9

“Beef strudel, or Damavarian curry?” Curry asked me shortly after that, surveying the available leftovers Nan had stored in the cold box. “And yes, obligatory, ha-ha.” I was torn, since I’d never tasted anything called curry before. “I don’t exactly know what curry is,” I admitt...

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Chapter 10

Upstairs Curry got an extra bedsheet from the linen closet and we sectioned his bed into two separate sleeping areas by folding each sheet in half and then replacing the remaining bedclothes over that. I had a toothbrush in the downstairs water closet, so I used that and washed m...

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Chapter 11

When I woke again from a mildly unsettling dream in which somebody unseen wouldn’t stop fumbling with my clothes, it was morning and I didn’t remember falling asleep. Curry and I had lain there a long time last night whispering in the dark, half bullshitting to reassure ourselves...

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Chapter 12

“Lieutenant?” I asked timidly, knocking lightly on Blankenship’s open door two mornings later. “I, er, do you have a moment, maybe?” The lieutenant looked up from whatever papers were in front of him, then glanced at the clock and nodded. “Come in.” He motioned me and Curry in a...

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Chapter 13

“Um, I see your predicament, sir,” I said after a moment. “I’ll… tell you who it was, if you think it’s best. But if you don’t mind, I’d still rather not talk to IG? I’m a bit worried if I do, nothing will come of it and then he’ll know I told and he’ll still be around, only more...

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Chapter 14

“I’m talking about succession planning, officers,” Blankenship said, tapping his finger on the list of names written on the current page of his ledger, and when we continued to stare uncomprehendingly at him, he explained further. “The current composition of SCD is a bit skewed,”...