Mun just had overdue canon review. Canon is A&E's Hornblower series.

[simplestgift]

I don't know why you're griping about how much it "hurts."  You didn't live it.

What's more, I'm not sure I'm quite as excited as you are by the prospect of being chased by a werewolf in the next few months.  ...Yes I know you like action, but it's not your skin on the line, is it?

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[simplestgift]

While I've known many a large, hairy monster given to incomprehensible snarling, no. It's a werewolf.

[greenjacketed]

Impossible. No such beast -- not outside of children's tales.

[simplestgift]

As you say. How's the war going?

[greenjacketed]

It goes as it always does. Some brass-buttoned bureaucrat needs something done and the doing falls on me. There's no end to it. Or none as I can see.

[simplestgift]

Easy enough, giving orders when your neck isn't the one getting the chop.

[greenjacketed]

Or your back the leather.

[ most of sharpe's little 'missions' took him well out of his traditional place in the army. without the duke's personal interference, he probably would have perished under punishment by now. ]

[simplestgift]

Not an officer, then?

[greenjacketed]

Not always.

[ he...fidgets. this is quite the awkward admission, for him. ]

[simplestgift]

Not always? Have you a commission or haven't you?

[Not that army commissions are really worth anything besides the money it takes to buy them.]

[greenjacketed]

The sort earned on the battlefield, lad. The sort any bought-and-paid officer would sooner see you stripped of than acknowledge.

[simplestgift]

The kind a sailor will respect and acknowledge the most, then. Your name, sir?

[greenjacketed]

Richard Sharpe. [ a pause. he still has trouble with social dynamics, after all this time. belatedly, he adds: ] Major Richard Sharpe.

And...? [ you? ]

[simplestgift]

Lieutenant Kennedy. [It sounds so weird to dance around giving his first name in a formal capacity, but he hates his full first name even more than Horatio hates his.]