Suddenly I was wracked by a terrible cramping feeling in my guts. The pain was intense and i heard the voice say in my head " Youuuuuuu wantedddd more...eee funnnnn."I doubled over in pain and dropped to the sidewalk in a fetal position. My mind was froze, in a state of complete fear and shock. In the middle of this I lost control of my bladder and pissed all over myself.Silently I was trying to do my best to pray for relief and safety, but the pain grew worse. Next I lost my bowels, and I felt a. He struggled but then swallowed a few times, and then put his phone down on the bed.Fuck.The girl had nerve, he had to give her that. Probably big balls of steel and confidence a mile long as well. And it made him smile widely in the dark of his room.It was an image he would have a hard time getting out of his mind for a long while. He had been entranced by her face, the sweetness of it, how young she looked still, but then when he realized...she was nearly fucking naked in the shot. God. She. Big difference, though. You’re not the gunner anymore, Grim. You’re the leader now. You’re not the guy on the trigger. You need to think like a leader.”I nodded in understanding. “Yeah, I follow you. For what it’s worth, I spent a lot of time talking to my grandfather while I was on leave. He was a sergeant in Vietnam, and he told me pretty much the same thing.”Both men nodded at that, then Lieutenant Briscoe shook my hand and turned me over to Sergeant Turner. Turner walked me over to. We repeated that experiment a few seconds later, getting the same result.The durations of our recent déjà vu's were a reasonably consistent 1.1 minutes, but they did vary somewhat. We wouldn't want to bet our life on their lasting even 90% of that length, as we'd nearly done when the last merge had happened. If we'd been slower to order 3B's body to die, the link might have terminated before we'd had a chance to transfer. [[As previously explained, there's no "transfer" at the moment of death..