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WASHINGTON. ([personal profile] protocol) wrote in [community profile] forbarrayar 2017-03-17 04:35 pm (UTC)

Smart girl.

"I do," he answers, and of course he does -- though maybe in a different fashion. The ideal soldier probably learns to do it because they're told to, but they'd take the orders because they want to, because they want to serve, for whatever greater cause they've found themselves wrapped up in. Wash, though. Wash doesn't do it because somebody else says it, no, but he doesn't do it for himself, either. It's for everyone else. For the people he cares about.

If it was just for him, himself, well. He probably wouldn't still be here.

"Sorry." A laugh, a combination of dry and a little strangely sheepish. "You've probably gotten that from a lot of people, huh?"

Maybe he didn't go into a full lecture, but still.

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