[Witches' Horses] Sibir

[named_by_rhyme]

Title: new command, new responsibilities
'Verse/characters: Sibir; Stas, Sergeievich
Prompt: 34A "the lucky"
Word Count: 1841
Notes: Between new arrival and forms, forms, and more formsVocab: Rotmistr is a captain of calvary; two man horses are crewed by two men, fives can be crewed up to five, seven up to seven but in this case they're lower

Comments

[billradish]

Andrei clanged what sounded like a shell casing on the horse's skeleton, making the strut behind Stas' head ring, and he fought the urge to cover his eyes with his hand. "Sir?"

"Yes, Lievetanant?"

"I'm just going to leave my foot in my mouth, if that's alright with you, and go ask Tymshenko if he's alright with towing that horse back to the stable."

Bwahahahaa... <3

"You were?" Sergeievich asked, startled into full attention if his voice was any clue, and Stas wished he could give the man an incredulous look. Wasn't that a reasonable division of--"Yes, better that five than a pair of twos. Well done, Lev."

"Thank you, sir," Stas said, feeling a lot more cheerful than he had a few minutes ago.

<3 for the incredulous moment. <3 for the reasonable division of. <3 for Sergeievich not being entirely at peak either.

"I'm supposed to give you an after-report," Stas said once they were out in the hallway and Sergeievich had given him a slightly more questioning glance as Stas started following him towards what he thought was

[taennyn]

Search and retrieval isn't uncommon at all--though I suspect it may have been when Sergeievich was one of the guys left into the cold (or they got missed in a cursory sweep).

A Captain personally involved and actually out there helping is definitely unusual. Stas' expectation is that there'd be maybe two or three levs running an operation like that, or even a lev and several sergeants.

He very much hasn't forgotten.