Title: Waxwork
Author: Galadriel (
caras_galadhon)
Fandom: Sharpe
Pairing: Girdwood, Sharpe, Harper (implied Sharpe/Harper)
Rating: PG
Archive:
Lothlorien and
sons_of_gondor.
Feedback: Always appreciated.
Disclaimer: I may march over the hills and far away alongside Richard Sharpe, but Bernard Cornwell, the lucky, lucky man, owns the rogue, not me.
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Vaughn and his bog-trotter *snort* whether he 'sees' it or not, the Lieutenant Colonel is something like privy to classified intel there. and it makes him rather nervous (and his moustache droop!).
what i liked especially was the timing...all that attention to detail, every little hair; about the time we think he's going to go on and write a book about it, SNIP! thank you very much...!
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I'm so pleased the timing worked so well for you, and thank you for saying so! *G*
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All but that Vaughn fellow and his bog-trotter, striding in perfect time, never out of step with each other, as if they'd been born with their boots on, rather than dredged up from the slurry along with the rest of the rabble.
Then at the end, as we are chuckling at his ridiculous vanity the last lines are chilling, foretelling deadly peril for our lads :
...it was a Lieutenant Colonel's duty to make sure not a hair was out of place.
Not one hair. And if single strands resisted, it would be simple work to snip them clean off.
Brilliantly done!
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