That was when it hit me. Up until that point, things had been going too fast, just one thing after another since the second we’d been within sight of the spaceport. Taking the first step along the retaining wall, sending Vicky and Bang-Bang ahead of me leading my platoon, the whole company following my orders, not just as a temporary measure because we were separated from the Skipper, but because he was dead…that just brought everything together in one package and slammed it into my chest. The Iwo blowing up, the drop-ship on fire, the isolation, the fusion reactor, Captain Covington’s
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