[He isn't asking just to ask - he wants to know. They are different men, for all that they have been treated so similarly.
And for all the congeniality, for all the smiling, for all the romance, the Soldier will find that his Captain is brutally effective, and that the key to him is brutal. There is no subtlety, perhaps, but there is elegance to his violence.
He stops the car - they are almost there, they'll walk the short rest of the way.]
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[He isn't asking just to ask - he wants to know. They are different men, for all that they have been treated so similarly.
And for all the congeniality, for all the smiling, for all the romance, the Soldier will find that his Captain is brutally effective, and that the key to him is brutal. There is no subtlety, perhaps, but there is elegance to his violence.
He stops the car - they are almost there, they'll walk the short rest of the way.]