Ever been in a situation where you are totally missing your connection with another person? Happens all the time. Important as it may be that everyone here gets along, I don’t think Colonel Talinina was prepared for just how much she’d hate to have to deal with her enemy. She is, after all, a POW at this point. You don’t just lay that aside, errant ethereal encounters or not.
Sorry for the rain delay on this one, but I’ve had a bit of an unexpected uptick in work and I miscalculated this week. Hopefully things will normalize this week. But at the moment, it’s late, and I’m worn out. So, I’ll just sign this one off and hope for the best. Have a good week everyone!
If looks could kill, Rucker would be a smoldering crater in the floor.
This ought to be an interesting meeting…
It’s certainly a very complicated one, that’s for sure.
Plot twist: “… yes, please. And thank you” 😀
Plot twist: “I’ll have a decaf cappuccino!”
Worse: “I’m vegan, cross-fitter and I have a boyfriend!”.
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We know you’ve been busy. Don’t beat yourself up about it too much, if at all I care more that you are alright and not working yourself to an injry or illness.
Thanks. The workload can vary pretty suddenly sometimes, but we all just do our best. I’m glad you’re all so patient with me!
“..a loaded pistol?”
Building bridges, man. Building BRIDGES…
“Do you have any cognac?” Is what she should request.
Vodka, man.
Too bad Rucker drinks Scotch, this would have gone allot easier.
Nah. Rooskies of class drink cognac. Also if she is from the Eastern Bloc equivalent I would be willing to bet on cognac over vodka.
Considering that 1). The Major cities of this world are all smoking ruins, and 2). What isn’t a ruin has been GLASSED, she should be a LITTLE more thankful she’s not “dust in the wind” right now………….
I’ll take being a POW over being particulate matter anyday
Well, sure. But also, consider this: there’s been a nuclear war, and from the looks of it, your side lost. You’re now a POW, and realize that things are going off the wall among your captors. You go to meet with your opposite number after you surrender, and he doesn’t show – he sends his second-in-command. And not only does the guy act like everything’s fine, he starts offering you coffee like you’re at a country club.
Hmm.
Nice use of the Estonian SSR flag on her sleeve insignia, only without the “hammer and sickle”.
One thing that baffles me – why is she wearing Romanian communist era “miliție” (police) or military firemen “plutonier major” (NATO OR-8) shoulder boards?
http://www.okazii.ro/militarie-razboaie/efecte-militare/epoleti-militie-plutonier-major-a164585371
Different rank structure in the FSR. Read: it was too hard to draw all that braid and laurel stuff the Soviets used to wear. The great thing about alternate history is you can make up your own rank epaulettes. 😉
And as for the Hammer-and-Sickle, I’m on record (as you know) saying that it feels about equal to the swastika as far as I’m concerned.
Oh, I know. I just felt really amused by the fact your fictional epaulets ended up looking exactly like ones that really did exist, even if the ranks themselves are different.
As for the Hammer and Sickle, I couldn’t agree more, especially since I was born in a Communist country and my family has suffered terribly at the hands of the Communists – for example, one of my great-grandfathers, who was a schoolteacher was arrested for opposing the regime, sentenced to 17 years in jail and then surreptitiously taken to a forest along with 15 others and shot, while another, a priest, was deported and forced to work in a coal mine for ten years.
how ungrateful
“Coffee, tea, or me?” 🙂