"Technically, he was never discharged," he told her. "The military never discharges useful men if they can help them, merely holds them on inactive status. With the new threat growing in Drachma, he is being asked to return to active status."
Scieszka blinked hard, eyes unusually fierce behind her glasses. "I worked in the military records long enough to know what's a bureaucratic fiction," she told him. "I helped file Ed's discharge papers after our wedding. Anything that's been entered into the archives since then is a lie."
Go Shez!
He didn't look at his old friend, instead just watching the stars. Funny, they were the same here as they were in Central; but somehow, you could see them so much more clearly from here.
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Date: 2004-12-11 04:53 pm (UTC)Scieszka blinked hard, eyes unusually fierce behind her glasses. "I worked in the military records long enough to know what's a bureaucratic fiction," she told him. "I helped file Ed's discharge papers after our wedding. Anything that's been entered into the archives since then is a lie."
Go Shez!
He didn't look at his old friend, instead just watching the stars. Funny, they were the same here as they were in Central; but somehow, you could see them so much more clearly from here.
Nice metaphor.