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''Might be a while before anyone’s here…''<br> | ''Might be a while before anyone’s here…''<br> | ||
He’d stood at the comms on the bridge, calling the ground below:<br> | He’d stood at the comms on the bridge, calling the ground below:<br> | ||
− | ''Weather | + | ''Weather report….Mission coordinates….''<br> |
Not the language of a man getting out of the spy business. It sounded more like a man getting in. A man who could not afford the liability of a lover or a wife.<br> | Not the language of a man getting out of the spy business. It sounded more like a man getting in. A man who could not afford the liability of a lover or a wife.<br> | ||
''Make no hostages to fate'', I’d said to him once, back when he’d first asked me to marry him. At the time he’d seen the necessity of it. Now I have to wonder if he’d been relieved I’d been practical instead of sentimental, on both that day and when he’d asked me again, nearly ten years later.<br> | ''Make no hostages to fate'', I’d said to him once, back when he’d first asked me to marry him. At the time he’d seen the necessity of it. Now I have to wonder if he’d been relieved I’d been practical instead of sentimental, on both that day and when he’d asked me again, nearly ten years later.<br> |