Stark's War
“The dollops condensed slowly, forming bars of brilliance against light blue veined with cracks as if the sky were splitting into fragments and letting dead space spill through. Then eyes finally focused and the broken sky resolved into peeling, painted rock strung with fluorescent lights."I'm not dead." The words didn't quite come out, hanging up somewhere within a rusty throat."No, Ethan, you're not dead."Stark turned his head with great care, until the face of Vic Reynolds swung into his fiel...d of vision. "Then you're no angel.""Not yet and probably never." Vic's face contorted with sudden anger as she jabbed a finger so close to Stark's nose that he flinched in reaction. "You idiot! Don't ever do something that goddamn stupid again!""You're welcome.""You said you wouldn't stay too long. Well, guess what? You were about one second this side of a body bag when we came back over that ridge with a brace of tanks and four APCs behind us. If one of the APCs hadn't been rigged as a life-support field ambulance you wouldn't have lived long enough to reach friendly lines."Stark managed a smile, wondering why his face felt so stiff, abruptly glad he couldn't see himself in a mirror.MoreLess
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