Entropy

Rated: T

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I.

War has the potential to be boring from the driver’s seat. Too often stressful. Too often tiring. But sometimes very boring. There are always men walking around and that becomes a boring sight rather quickly.

So he thinks about her. He tries not to. Not too much. He is committed to keeping his two worlds separate. War is very dark and very dirty, and he doesn’t want her mixed in with all that. With all the bullets and the blood and the bodies. All the ashes of the necessary dead.

After all, she isn’t a mission. She is a want. A desire. Not an imperative end-goal. But one he’s going to take on personally just the same. He wants to; because he wants her.

And he doesn’t want her mixed in with those hard, necessary means to their necessary end.

She requires far softer means. She is a want, after all.

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