[ Falsified and immediately caught. Forged a report for the sake of wanting to save his position. To keep himself away from desk work. Dendarii is actually a word he's never heard Miles use in this context, though he's heard it for the geography from others, but he can guess with the context. A career wouldn't survive that.
He moves his hand to Miles' again, to try and ground him -- to ground himself, a little, because there is a part of his mind, instinctive, that both tries to work out ways for Miles to get out of it, that thinks on how maybe he could have forged it better. But that was all a little besides the point. ]
One life's already a lot to lose. [ A slight shake of his head. He wants to say that if anyone could find a way to build something up again from that, he thinks it'd be Miles, but that doesn't feel like the right thing to say, right now. Not that he can think of anything better. He remembers how fondly he'd spoken of his fleet. He'd loved them, too. ] And so -- this, I guess. You're here now.
[ Where no one knows who he was or how he was discharged. Wash had always thought of that as a negative, but apparently, there's good sides to it, too. ]
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He moves his hand to Miles' again, to try and ground him -- to ground himself, a little, because there is a part of his mind, instinctive, that both tries to work out ways for Miles to get out of it, that thinks on how maybe he could have forged it better. But that was all a little besides the point. ]
One life's already a lot to lose. [ A slight shake of his head. He wants to say that if anyone could find a way to build something up again from that, he thinks it'd be Miles, but that doesn't feel like the right thing to say, right now. Not that he can think of anything better. He remembers how fondly he'd spoken of his fleet. He'd loved them, too. ] And so -- this, I guess. You're here now.
[ Where no one knows who he was or how he was discharged. Wash had always thought of that as a negative, but apparently, there's good sides to it, too. ]