Chapter 3
The calm is what gets to you. Those quiet minutes between a fight and the next, which you know for certain that it’s coming since you are the vlakas speeding towards it.
I could see the kid was shaking. Had he even been in a firefight before? I know his computing was seriously impressive, but a shaky team-member can get you killed. After he gets himself killed first. Or captured. I hate it when my team-mates get captured. I have to go all the way there and get them, there is sooo much drama and hostage situations and headshots and blood spatter on their face and ungrateful things like, “Oh my god you could have killed me.” We can’t have that.
I needed him to focus his mind, so I said, “Hey Uberkid, let’s go over the plan again with the added info the client gave you.”
He was
