ALPHA PAUL POV
Surprises are things you enjoy as a child. As an adult, surprises get associated with dark secrets and hidden pasts. The prime example is my surprise, more like shock and awe, to find that Sargeant Master Leia wasn’t trying to be spiteful when she said our protocols were a joke and not a good one.
The fact that she wasn't lying doesn't take away the enjoyment she got from cutting me and my pack down. Prickly hellcat. “She took one look at this crap and knew it was bullshit. It took you two hours of reading the same stupid protocol over and over to realize it was dribble.” Idris scoffed. He was not being helpful, and still bitching about my decision to reject Leia.
We weren’t going to agree, so there was no point telling him to let it go. “I was trying to make sense of i
