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Kee’d set off at a good clip, but Archie wasn’t there. She slowed to a jog-trot as they worked their way back over the hills and fields toward the ocean.
The Professor wasn’t hurting. Without a pack, this was an easy run for a SOAR pilot, especially for a Black Adder. Major Henderson’s company, Kee was pleased to be discovering, always worked harder, flew longer, and posted seriously high successful completion ratios in a regiment that valued that above all else.
So, if he wasn’t tapped… He had his thinking face on. His body ran along, but he wasn’t paying it much attention. “Okay, before you joined the Army is an out-of-bounds topic. Understood. So, how did you end up in SOAR?”
“How did you?”
“I asked first.”
“I’m a girl, I can change the subject anytime I want.”
“I’m your super
