[Witches' Horses] Sibir

[named_by_rhyme]

Title: two steps sideways
'Verse/characters: Sibir; Ruslan Sergeievich, Symon Gavriilovich, various others
Prompt: 49A "messenger"
Word Count: 2308
Notes: After first time. I foresee a terrifying amount of research into flight panels at some point.
Also, it's been over a month since I last wrote. Please forgive the rust.

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Comments

[taennyn]

:D This is not an inappropriate reaction, so far's I can tell.

[billradish]

He'd gotten the fire out before it spread, and no one else had been injured. Escaping the clutches of the triage medsestra on the zastava had proved trickier.

I am astonishingly not surprised by this.

Ruslan hadn't been a lievtenant yet when Savvov had been injured, but the stories were . . memorable.

And remarkably difficult to translate for polite company.

and Captain Leonidovich, who was . . somewhere. The system all but threw up its hands in exasperation at him for asking. Ruslan mentally noted down a possible side effect of the topical painkillers the medsestra had slathered generously over his leg, then left a message in the captain's inbox that he was still building his after-action report and would either send it or deliver it in person according to the captain's preference.

*SNERK* <3

Nearly an hour later, leg throbbing and put entirely off the idea of eating by watching the engineers try to figure out who'd been where in the horse and what their records wanted done with them

Waugh. =(

As he crossed the threshold of

[taennyn]

It didn't help that the medsestra thought he was cute. >.>

I think Savvov spent some time as a sergeant before his promotion--that really wouldn't hurt his vulgar vocabulary, either. (The basic idea that the man was grumpy about being stuck with All the Paperwork is pretty easy to translate for polite company. Exactly how grumpy, what he said while he was, and what he started doing to people . . . yeeeeah.)

Waugh. =(

Yeah. One of the drafts had more detail on that. Couldn't quite get it, though, so it got dropped.

Which is...to trip the unwary?

*snerk!* Well, the reason on paper is that the training bay is on a set of independent coils and they're run from the horses instead of the zastava's controls. But tripping the unwary is a great side effect. :D

For only having just met Symon Gavriilovich myself--yeah, I like him, too. :) There'll be more with him.

I hadn't actually realized he started in infantry.

It took me a a while to notice, too. >.>

[taennyn]

The kid is pretty ace. *solemn agreement*

Sorry your brain is fried. Hope things improve soon.

[klgaffney]

*winces at the first line*

*chuckle* just the trouble he goes into avoiding her is enough to suggest what sort of woman the medsestra might be, and no, i'm sure he doesn't want to be stuck with ALL THE PAPERWORK. meep.

Then he hiked--well, limped--down to the engineering bay, to say goodbye to a friend.

Nearly an hour later, leg throbbing and put entirely off the idea of eating by watching the engineers try to figure out who'd been where in the horse and what their records wanted done with them

=(

*chuckle* i like that he completely misses the part where everyone that meets him winds up impressed by him, and that it feels natural that he would. that kinda thing usually isn't handled quite so elegantly. he IS genuinely likable and respectable, and it does make sense from his pov that he'd miss how much so. it works from both ends.

And the man had classed 'absolutely necessary' as 'my lievtenant or the file sergeant is threatening bodily harm if this piece of paper is not filed'.

oh no. *facepalm*

Nearly six hours later,

[taennyn]

he IS genuinely likable and respectable, and it does make sense from his pov that he'd miss how much so. it works from both ends.

\o/!

Ahem. Thank you. :)

OH NO. =|

Yeah. The paperwork, it comes for his sooooooul. (Not that he'd strike a deal with the Devil to get all the paperwork done even if the Devil OFFERED, but oy.)

i'm not parsing "string bag." *ponders* my brain wants to give me "bag of all-holding."

*snerk!* They do hold more than they look like they should, but those expanding net bags grocery stores use on satsumas are a better visual than Bag of All Holding. Am thinking I need to slip in a few jokes about old women carrying string bags into the narrative before this piece. :)

*gigggggling* now look what you did.

Ruslan sez =|. :)

[illian]

I'm getting the impression he thinks of himself of only doing what needs doing.

[taennyn]

Yeah, that works, though I think he'd add 'what should be done', as well.