“Look at the Captain,” Blaine said quietly. “Now I know I don’t want to be an officer.”The door to the simulation room opened. I could hear ...everal people walk into the room. Several of the crew waiting on the walls muttered greetings.“I can see some things we’ll want to practice if we can find a way to do it,” Ensign Daniels said. “But I want to examine some ideas.”I nodded. Every muscle in my back was knotted up as I turned the chair to face the back of the room. “Before you even start I have. The exertion, the cold, and the wet clothes all conspired to make Elbar sick, and he developed a hacking cough.Three weeks later, and a week after the Duke of Beyreth surrounded Patris, Elbar of Clonal, the unwilling pretender to the throne, died. He was buried under the floor of the small temple and his deathbed wish to negotiate a surrender was roundly ignored.The new strong man after Botho's death was Erin of Eglas, also a cousin of Botho and the former King Lorsa. He ruled over the fortress. MIDWAY ... Goldberg and I looked at each other ... that was HOME for both of us.The Captain continued, upon arrival at Midway we would turn the plane over to the MPs along with the weapons and ammo and be on our way.Goldberg and I were going home a day early. I looked over at my Sergeant and he had a shit-eating grin on his face and he said, "Merry Christmas and a Happy Chanukah, Privates!"Thirty minutes later Goldberg and I were sitting on a military transport plane, waiting to take off.The. About half an hour after my parents left I left to the park to go play soccer with my friends, about two hours later I came back home. Being sweaty and tired from soccer I went upstairs to go take a shower, not even noticing that my sister wasn’t home. After my shower I went downstairs and to go look for something to eat, but I couldn’t find anything so I went up to Rachel’s rooms to ask her what she wanted to eat so I could order but she wasn’t home. I ordered pizza and watched tv in the.