If I had one to offer, I would. Unfortunately, I think of all of us, you're the one best placed to reach him. He'd listen to you where he'd dismiss anyone else.
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
One step at a time, perhaps. Could you convince him to learn to shoot with you? Purely for self-defence, of course.
He won't have any choice, Barnaby. He's Green Team, for a start. They already had to kill the Shai. What will he do once we hit a planet where the major species is more human than animal?
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
You know it's possible, or there wouldn't be a threat to our worlds for saying no.
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Well, now that I know you don't want to tell me...
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
I'm joking. How many do you need?
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I doubt I could keep it from you even if I tried.
FROM: brooksjr.barnaby@cdc.org
It should only take a few, depending on my aim.
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Depending on your aim, I see.
I'll give you a magazine. If that's not enough, I have more.
[ He knows your aversion to guns, okay... ]
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Thank you. I do appreciate it.
FROM: brooksjr.barnaby@cdc.org
Actually speaking of which, I was hoping I could ask you for one more favour.
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Of course. How can I help?
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I wanted to ask you about training with firearms. I could use some more help.
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Really? I thought you'd never ask.
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
Let me know when you're free. We can work on that aim.
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I had to make sure that my aim wasn't so bad you'd laugh me out of the VR room.
FROM: brooksjr.barnaby@cdc.org
I have a surprising amount of free time lately.
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Everyone's a beginner at some point. I won't laugh.
[ He can be relied upon to be serious in training, as it happens. It's one of the few times he can actually assure that. ]
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
I doubt the free time will last. If you like we can make a standing appointment, until such time as we're called on for other duties.
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I'll have you know that I've been training since the Ajna rendezvous. Don't make me reconsider my request.
FROM: brooksjr.barnaby@cdc.org
That sounds like a good idea. We can reassess later on and see where to go from there once we know what we're up against.
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Have you?
[ He's genuinely surprised. Not just because Barnaby's training, but because Kotetsu hasn't, and they're normally joined at the hip, after all. ]
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
Then why hasn't Kotetsu? I've appealed to him more than once, and he always refuses.
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Because Kotetsu doesn't want to kill people, and isn't prepared to.
FROM: brooksjr.barnaby@cdc.org
Despite my own misgivings about firearms, I thought it better to be prepared for whatever may come during our time with the CDC.
FROM: brooksjr.barnaby@cdc.org
But I have not been able to convince him to do the same.
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Well, that's a whole other conversation in the making. It's not as if our contracts have ended. He isn't going to have a choice.
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
Not to mention that Ghost told me it only gets harder from here.
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Of that, I have no doubt. The time will come where he either has to make the choice, or potentially die for his reluctance to do so.
FROM: brooksjr.barnaby@cdc.org
It has weighed on my mind for some time, but I have yet to find a solution.
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If I had one to offer, I would. Unfortunately, I think of all of us, you're the one best placed to reach him. He'd listen to you where he'd dismiss anyone else.
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
One step at a time, perhaps. Could you convince him to learn to shoot with you? Purely for self-defence, of course.
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I could try to, but I am not sure that even that will sway him. I still don't intend to stop trying, however.
FROM: brooksjr.barnaby@cdc.org
Especially considering the fact that it seems our missions will become more and more difficult. He may not have much of a choice.
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He won't have any choice, Barnaby. He's Green Team, for a start. They already had to kill the Shai. What will he do once we hit a planet where the major species is more human than animal?
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
You know it's possible, or there wouldn't be a threat to our worlds for saying no.
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He is going to falter. That much I already know.
FROM: brooksjr.barnaby@cdc.org
I have been trying to help him prepare for the inevitability, but until it happens, there is no way of telling if any of it has helped.
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Well then, one of us will just have to be there to catch him, every time.
FROM: sturmhond@cdc.org
Not that it would be a new experience for you, of course.
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At this point in my career, it may as well be what they pay me for.
FROM: brooksjr.barnaby@cdc.org
I will not allow him to fall.
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I know you won't, my friend.