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“What? Give that here.” The Precedent Commander scowled. It aggrieved him to see this undirected, crackling energy. | “What? Give that here.” The Precedent Commander scowled. It aggrieved him to see this undirected, crackling energy. | ||
Barberazza tossed over the piece. Hare inspected it. The workmanship was rough, but sound. | Barberazza tossed over the piece. Hare inspected it. The workmanship was rough, but sound. It was put together with a young man’s vigour. The structure was sturdy: the defs were true — zilch redundancies. The cross-refs dovetailed — xml field-embedded, auto-updating. The multi-level numbering was rudimentary but true. Hare lined up the counterpart assembly and took a sighter. Straight. Clean. | ||
“Yeah, that’s not bad, but there’s not a lot that can go wrong on a [[Calculation agent|calc agent]] appointment [[side letter]]. You got a bit to learn yet, lad.” | “Yeah, that’s not bad, but there’s not a lot that can go wrong on a [[Calculation agent|calc agent]] appointment [[side letter]]. You got a bit to learn yet, lad.” | ||
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The boy looked at him with blazing, fierce excitement. “That’s all I ''want'', sir — to learn. Whatever you got, I’m buying!” | The boy looked at him with blazing, fierce excitement. “That’s all I ''want'', sir — to learn. Whatever you got, I’m buying!” | ||
The kid had it bad | Commander Hare shook his head thoughtfully. The kid had it bad: it was time to have some fun with him. He chuckled to himself, dug into the the hopper and pulled out a lightweight chro-moly [[engagement letter|engagement iron]] with a [[silencer]]. | ||
He tossed it over. “What do you make of this one then, lad?” | He tossed it over. “What do you make of this one then, lad?” |