A little bit of a story which I’m reserving rights to. Starts now:
“Are there any side effects?” he had asked.
“None besides the obvious ones that come with such a relationship.”
“Why not experiment on a grunt–they don’t matter?” but you don’t say things like that. No one ever says things like that. Even now, at this last moment when anything that is said would allow the individual to be released from the program, free to go to whatever other aspect of military life–but that would be failure. Instead he said “For the Great Cause.”
“For the Great Cause.”