We've all gathered, finally. I note that Hiromu isn't alone in being fairly new to the operation. Our last operator with a focus on subdimension monitoring and data transfer left recently due to his wife having a child, so Miss Nakamura Miho has recently been promoted into our ranks. Her salute matches Hiromu's almost precisely, which makes me smile.
The last thing I expect at the end of the commander's lecture and explanation of the mission and our duties is for the alarm to go off. My eyes widen and I turn my head just slightly to look at the glowing emblem on the wall. Surely it's just a drill?
No, Etienne's gone all tense, and it was foolish of me to assume that they would startle us with something like that.
This is real.
Our first real mission.
We salute as one (I note that this time Hiromu's salute is timed accurately with the rest of us) and I break with the rest of the group, heading automatically for the shooters.
They weren't originally designed to be used by more than one person at a time, but Etienne and I aren't permitted to separate in case of a malfunction, so I slide in first against the back curve of the shooter and wait for Etienne to join me as I draw my sunglasses out of a pocket and slip them on.
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Date: 2013-03-24 05:16 pm (UTC)The last thing I expect at the end of the commander's lecture and explanation of the mission and our duties is for the alarm to go off. My eyes widen and I turn my head just slightly to look at the glowing emblem on the wall. Surely it's just a drill?
No, Etienne's gone all tense, and it was foolish of me to assume that they would startle us with something like that.
This is real.
Our first real mission.
We salute as one (I note that this time Hiromu's salute is timed accurately with the rest of us) and I break with the rest of the group, heading automatically for the shooters.
They weren't originally designed to be used by more than one person at a time, but Etienne and I aren't permitted to separate in case of a malfunction, so I slide in first against the back curve of the shooter and wait for Etienne to join me as I draw my sunglasses out of a pocket and slip them on.