“Oh my God,” said Luke, and sat down heavily on the stone steps, in the dark, his head in his hands. “He could have killed you. I could have killed you!” “No, no, I had every faith in you,” said Elliot. “I did think he might kill me, but there was a life to be saved in the balance, so you see it was worth it.” Elliot also found war very traumatizing, but he’d thought that Luke would be more used to it by now. He reached out in the dark, found Luke’s shoulder, and patted it. “I know, violence is terrible,” he said. “I’ll be more supportive later. I have to go see Colonel Whiteleaf now. Don’t
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