He waits out the first, snippy replies, draws a breath, considers the scope of the question apart from the topic he suspects is waiting in the wings.
"It's not impossible."
The particulars of what a victory would cost—
Well, that's not the question. Ellis makes the tally all the same, set against what has already been sacrificed. It's a familiar calculation. He'd learned it at Joppa's elbow, has had nearly fifteen years to perfect it on his own.
"We could have talked about the war on the training yard," stands in for something else, a question.
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He waits out the first, snippy replies, draws a breath, considers the scope of the question apart from the topic he suspects is waiting in the wings.
"It's not impossible."
The particulars of what a victory would cost—
Well, that's not the question. Ellis makes the tally all the same, set against what has already been sacrificed. It's a familiar calculation. He'd learned it at Joppa's elbow, has had nearly fifteen years to perfect it on his own.
"We could have talked about the war on the training yard," stands in for something else, a question.