> "It was not easy at all, mostly because of the razzing I took for having
my brother being the one that issued the demerits and extra duty. But I
lived through it. Samuel would say that I was a better officer for it.
Older brothers are that way aren't they...", Tyrus said appearing to be back to
his old self.
"I wouldn't know," she said. "I was the oldest sibling in my family."
She paused, seeing he'd risen out of his funk a little. "Yourrr brrrotherr
is a subtle man. He's not like me, someone who wants to look an enemy orrr
a prrroblem in the face and confrrront it. He likes to wait and put all
the necessarrry pieces into place beforrre he acts. To those who arrren't in
on it, it looks like he's doing nothing. Maybe that's why Admirrral
Ketterrring rrresponds so negatively to that. He's like me in that he's an
up-frrront, take it head-on kind of perrrson. But that doesn't mean he's
rrright. I had to learrrn that the harrrd way in my life and my carrreerr,
starrrting with that incident at the Academy. Sometimes you just have to look
like you'rrre playing along so yourrr rrreal plans don't fall aparrrt
beforrre they'rrre rrready forrr the masterrrstrroke. In my case, that
masterrrstrroke was making Admirrral, even though my detrrractorrs said I would
neverrr make it in the fleet even as a deck hand because I was too
undisciplined. It took a long time, but I won in the end."
"That describes Samuel quite well. To a 'T' in fact. Sorry to change topics, but
did I hear you correctly in that you are interested in being CinC?"
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Chris
GM- SPD & JSOC
