And he'd definitely never expected to ever have to tell someone, "All right, no killing and eating me, okay? I'm ready to go.
S.J. KincaidYour head could fit in the muzzle of this thing," Vik said, awestruck. "Seriously. Come on and let's see."
"I'm not sticking my head in a cannon thing. Stick your own head in."
"I have highly temperamental hair. It'll get nestlike. You don't care when your hair gets nestlike, Tom. You can't possibly.
Are you guys seriously messing around with real weapons?" she exclaimed. "It's like you want Darwin Awards!"
Tom flushed, and set his gun back on its hook. "It's not like we were going to start a dynastic war or something."
"Yeah," Vik said guiltily, returning his own weapon.
That's lucky?" Tom repeated bitterly. "Lucky now means 'worst case scenario ever,' then. That's great. Good to know."
"Sir," Blackburn corrected.
"You outrank me. You shouldn't call me 'sir.'"
"Raines, you'll address me as 'sir' or I will stick you back down in that cell next to the census device until 'sir' is the only word you remember."
Tom bristled. He'd never hated someone so much. "Sir, yes, sir. I'll use 'sir,' sir. Is that all, sir?"
"Oh, I'd say that's all. Get into the simulation with the others." Blackburn jabbed at his forearm keyboard. "It irritates me just looking at you."
Back at you, Tom thought.
Tag: insignia
There’s not a person in history who achieved greatness without choking back some pride, without ever smiling at someone they despised, without playing along even if they hated the very idea of it
S.J. KincaidTag: insignia
Tom finally understood why his father saw humanity as worthless. It was hard to see much fundamental value in anything when the bad guys always won.
Maybe this was simply what it was like to grow up.
If there was a horse and the horse looked like you, I would find that horse attractive.
S.J. KincaidTag: vortex
If I met a horse that looked like you, I’d find that horse attractive.
S.J. KincaidTag: pick-up-lines vortex
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