\u201cIf we\u2019re going to be partners, we should at least get to know each other\u2019s strengths and weaknesses. So we can do better on the battlefield.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMm-hmm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ll start: my strengths include being able to form tactics and plans in the heat of battle and being able to predict enemy troop movements. I\u2019m not so good with hand-to-hand combat, however.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMm-hmm.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYour turn.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m good at everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBe serious.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI am being serious, fat-ass.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t call me that. Learning each other\u2019s strengths and weaknesses could mean the difference between life and death\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBlah blah blah. Listen, you can just stay in the room from now on. I don\u2019t need you slowing me down out there. I\u2019ll take the missions and you can sit here and, I don\u2019t know, eat chips or something?\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cExcuse me? Listen here, Cavvar-kid\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t call me that, fat-ass.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThen don\u2019t call me fat-ass, Cavvar-kid.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can use my fucking name and I will use yours when you have earned my respect.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBack at you, asshole.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAre you doing this with me right now, fatty? Because we know how this fight will go.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cDo we? Last time I checked our fight was stopped before a victor was chosen. And what was it again? Oh, right, you had to go into suspension and were stuck at base while the rest of us got familiar with the lay of the land.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat\u2019s there to be familiar with out there? It\u2019s a fucking desert planet! I can\u2019t imagine something as exciting as figuring out the lay of the land! Wow, did you guys play eye-spy? \u2018Eye spy\u2026sand!\u2019 That must have been fantastic! Too bad I was stuck here, training<\/em>, while your fat ass rolled down some sand dunes!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cStop calling me that!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFucking make me!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhy in the name of Vix did I get paired with someone as bull-headed as you?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh, woe is you, right? To be paired with the only person on this Vix-forsaken planet that can hold her own! You\u2019re the one who has it bad, aren\u2019t you? Want to make some tea and cry about it together, partner?<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n \u201c\u2018Hold her own\u2019? You? I\u2019m sorry, what happened last time the army ran into the Thrax? Wasn\u2019t that\u2026wasn\u2019t that you<\/em> who got surrounded because you\u2019re<\/em> a moron?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWho got her head bashed in the first day of training? Oh, right, that was you, because some idiot let a ball of dough into the army without teaching her how to fight!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not like beggars can be choosers, Cavvar-kid! Look at you! You\u2019re supposed to be the daughter of Jen Cavvar, some \u2018great war hero\u2019, and you\u2019re running around bashing in the heads of your own people! You\u2019re fighting more with me than you are with the actual enemy!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t compare me to my mother! That old woman has nothing on me!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDoesn\u2019t she? She would\u2019ve had her team of three formed already, would\u2019ve already scouted the playing field, and would be working in tangent with her fellow warriors instead of against them! You\u2019re standing here accusing me of being some idiot who doesn\u2019t know how to fight when you\u2019re the one with mommy-issues and is taking them out on everyone else! Don\u2019t laugh at me, Cavvar-kid!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cOh, I will do whatever I please, fat-ass. And you? Why don\u2019t you stay the fuck away from me, okay? We\u2019re not friends. And we won\u2019t ever be friends. So don\u2019t get your hopes up.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t going to.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGood. I\u2019m going to train.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI won\u2019t miss you.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDon\u2019t stay up.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI won\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cIf we\u2019re going to be partners, we should at least get to know each other\u2019s strengths and weaknesses. So we can do better on the battlefield.\u201d \u201cMm-hmm.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll start: my strengths include being able to form tactics and plans in the heat of battle and being able to predict enemy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[197],"tags":[29,26,72,129,130,158,13,157,12,68,92,114,60,97,37,133],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p27tjX-fW","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":989,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988\/revisions\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/winter-publishing.com\/welcome-to-winter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}