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[ettersberg]

Hornblower. [ meaning much the same. ]

[whisted]

[It's good to be left with a task. It's good to know that someone would notice one's life or death in the chaos.

It's no small part of why, a short time later, Horatio will be reporting back with a rather breathless:] --going outside, sir.

[ettersberg]

[ there is no part of nightingale that flinches at that. some part that wishes it was not necessary, that he could spare someone as young as horatio the horrors of combat-- but then, it's a bit late for that, isn't it?

with firm emphasis: ] Godspeed.

[whisted]

[A small intake of breath, taking in that certainty to help steel himself.]

Sir.

[Much easier to run toward death with someone else's confidence rattling in the back of his head.]