Title: going down the checklist
'Verse/characters: Sibir; Stas, Sergeievich, various others
Prompt: 17F: "experience"
Word Count: 1110
Notes: billradish asked for "something with Stas early in his association with Sergeieivich" when I couldn't manage the late-stages expansion she'd originally asked for ( Read more... )

Title: Middle management sucks.
'Verse/characters: Sibir; Ruslan Sergeievich, a sergeant, a lev
Prompt: 82D "addition"
Word Count: 1819
Notes: After bare shoulders and suns, before new arrivalSo far as I can currently determine (and lord knows this is subject to revision with future research), there's approximately two sergeants to a ( Read more... )

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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( They hadn't expected to lose Davidovich )

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 ( Read more... )

Title: first time
'Verse/characters: Sibir; Ruslan Sergeievich
Prompt: 57D "sacrificial"
Word Count: 1050
Notes: After not exactly zakushi.

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( He had no idea how Kostenko had gotten his hands on terem-made vodka. )

Title: promoted
'Verse/characters: Sibir; Ruslan Sergeievich, one of his sergeants
Prompt: 47B "sour"
Word Count: 832
Notes: After circumstances must, before soldier's make.

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( The debriefing for twenty seven men--they'd found another four survivors in the day it took the riders to get out to them--had taken days. )

Title: not exactly zakushi
'Verse/characters: Sibir; Ruslan Sergeievich, others
Prompt: youraugustine: "Sibir, rations"
Word Count: 318
Notes: Same timeframe as soldier's make. He's a lievtenant, at the moment, but they haven't bothered to rip off someone's tabs for him to use.
Dormouse, you will make ew-face.

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( The evening's rations-optional was a serving of reconstituted dried mushrooms, or an extra glass of vodka, the board at the end of the line announced. )

Title: Technical insubordination.
'Verse/characters: Sibir; Ruslan Sergeievich, Arkady Gregorovich
Prompt: billradish: "Sergeievich, unproductive meetings"
Word Count: 301
Notes: Somewhere between glory's where you find it and no head for the waters of life. Feodor Nikolaievich appeared in bare shoulders and sunsAnd yes, Sergeievich STILL isn't ( Read more... )

Title: Soldier's Make
'Verse/characters: Sibir; Ruslan Sergeievich
Prompt: darthneko: "really awful vodka"
Word Count: 275
Notes: after circumstances must, but before bare shoulders and suns; that is, before he's promoted to captain.

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( He would not wince )

Title: forms, forms and more forms
'Verse/characters: Sibir; Sergeievich, Stas
Prompt: 40D "4:29 PM", interpreted as near the end of the work day
Word Count: 589
Notes: after new arrival, before glory's where you find it. Saints Boris and Gleb, brothers and princes, were martyred by their unconverted brother, but they're on the list of ( Read more... )