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All of which I expected, really.<br><br> | All of which I expected, really.<br><br> | ||
− | The weapon we'd breathed in affected us differently. We were all insufferably confident and more than a bit manic about it, but how it was expressed took different forms. I had to watch myself like a hawk in the engine room lest my drug-induced condition | + | The weapon we'd breathed in affected us differently. We were all insufferably confident and more than a bit manic about it, but how it was expressed took different forms. I had to watch myself like a hawk in the engine room lest my drug-induced condition lead me to do something catastrophically stupid. Which nearly happened this morning and I was just coherent enough to get out of there and find something more constructive to do.<br><br> |
Which, of course, was ready and waiting. I just needed someone to share it with. I grinned at Joshua's back and decided that there was no time like the present. After all, that was my foremost idea.<br><br> | Which, of course, was ready and waiting. I just needed someone to share it with. I grinned at Joshua's back and decided that there was no time like the present. After all, that was my foremost idea.<br><br> | ||
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I stepped into my own harness and buckled in, all the while watching Joshua's progress. I climbed up after him and in a minute I'd joined him on the platform.<br><br> | I stepped into my own harness and buckled in, all the while watching Joshua's progress. I climbed up after him and in a minute I'd joined him on the platform.<br><br> | ||
− | "It's simple," I said as I unbuckled a carabiner and a length of tac cord from the top rung. The ceiling was a mere five feet overhead as were the tracks the cargo webbing attached to. Standing carefully, I put my hand up and drew one of the webbing trolleys closer. "See these? We'll clip on to this, with this." I | + | "It's simple," I said as I unbuckled a carabiner and a length of tac cord from the top rung. The ceiling was a mere five feet overhead as were the tracks the cargo webbing attached to. Standing carefully, I put my hand up and drew one of the webbing trolleys closer. "See these? We'll clip on to this, with this." I unclipped a carabiner and its line from the rung. "You can clip on from the back or from the front." I demonstrated the front-clip assembly on myself, running the line through the half dozen carabiners attached to my harness. I got the knots in the cord in place and turned to Joshua. "So how do you want it?" I asked slyly. "From behind or from the front?"<br><br> |
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