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learning your spinal column, since I've already read in a copy of your wonderful Agnieshka."
"One last thing. How did you kill those Serbian officers?"
"I simply told them that they had been found guilty of breaking the Laws of War by permitting the troops
under their command to rape and brutalize members of an occupied population. I gave them a few
minutes to say any prayers they might know and to get their souls in order, and then turned off their air
supplies. None of them actually said any prayers, but I felt that it was only decent to give them the
option."
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"Good enough."
I got in the coffin, and fitted the catheter, which was for a man this time.
It wasn't easy, since I couldn't help thinking about the way the silicone rubber fitting had just been pulled
out of a cadaver, but I did it, convinced that somebody owed me a medal or some such for my actions.
Then I plugged in, put on my helmet, and laid myself down. Before the coffin finished filling, I was sitting
behind a large desk in a small classroom with a white-haired professor standing in front of a blackboard.
Like everyone else in the room, including myself, he was wearing rather stodgy academic-looking Harris
tweeds.
I glanced about, and the woman sitting next to me was Kasia!
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
COLLEGE, TOWN, AND GOWN
"Mickolai!"
We were on our feet and embracing as our chairs fell to the floor around us.
"I take it that you two have met?" the professor said, but we ignored him.
"Well then, there appears to be nothing for it, I'm afraid. Heis the general, after all. Class is dismissed for
an hour."
The others filed out, leaving us alone. After a while, we unclenched to catch our breaths and look
earnestly into each other's eyes.
"Kasia, can it really be you? How could you possibly be here?"
"It's really me, and getting here didn't take much planning. Lech got shot up and I had to eject behind the
enemy lines. I was captured and given the choice of being shot or enlisting in the Serbian Army. Then
when they put me in a new tank, she told me that I was back in the Croatian Army, and before too long I
was selected to be a colonel. I was the only one promoted out of the five Kashubian POWs who were
enlisted here. But why are we standing here talking? Eva! Take us to my cottage!"
And we were there.
"Eva? Well, that explains why I didn't know you were here sooner. The other half of the tanks are
Agnieshkas, and she would have recognized you right off." I said as Kasia was busily taking off my
clothes and I fumbled with hers.
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"Soyou are the hero that everyone has been talking about! I should have known!"
"I'm a hero all right. Hero first class, with thunderbolts and an oak leaf cluster!"
"That's wonderful," she said, kissing me while shoving me into bed. "Now, shut up."
I shut up, and it was a few hours before we got back to the classroom.
"Now that we'refinally all back together, we can begin the orientation lecture," the professor said. "You
may call me Professor Cee. It will be at least two months before the division that we command will be
even partly trained, and we will be using that time to train you, the division's officers, as well. Your course
of training will be quite extensive and will take eight years to complete. Upon satisfactory completion of
the course, you will each be granted a Ph.D. in Military Science.
"The time difference between two months and eight years will cause us no difficulty because the
computational abilities of a Combat Control Computer are such that I can keep you all in Dream World
at Combat Speed, which subjectively is approximately fifty times as fast as normal time. We shall have
time enough to complete the course while only two months go by in the real world. You may look on this
as being one of the fringe benefits of your currently exalted positions, for as of the moment that this class
first started, your life spans each became fifty times longer. At least subjectively they will seem to be that
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learning your spinal column, since I've already read in a copy of your wonderful Agnieshka."
"One last thing. How did you kill those Serbian officers?"
"I simply told them that they had been found guilty of breaking the Laws of War by permitting the troops
under their command to rape and brutalize members of an occupied population. I gave them a few
minutes to say any prayers they might know and to get their souls in order, and then turned off their air
supplies. None of them actually said any prayers, but I felt that it was only decent to give them the
option."
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"Good enough."
I got in the coffin, and fitted the catheter, which was for a man this time.
It wasn't easy, since I couldn't help thinking about the way the silicone rubber fitting had just been pulled
out of a cadaver, but I did it, convinced that somebody owed me a medal or some such for my actions.
Then I plugged in, put on my helmet, and laid myself down. Before the coffin finished filling, I was sitting
behind a large desk in a small classroom with a white-haired professor standing in front of a blackboard.
Like everyone else in the room, including myself, he was wearing rather stodgy academic-looking Harris
tweeds.
I glanced about, and the woman sitting next to me was Kasia!
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
COLLEGE, TOWN, AND GOWN
"Mickolai!"
We were on our feet and embracing as our chairs fell to the floor around us.
"I take it that you two have met?" the professor said, but we ignored him.
"Well then, there appears to be nothing for it, I'm afraid. Heis the general, after all. Class is dismissed for
an hour."
The others filed out, leaving us alone. After a while, we unclenched to catch our breaths and look
earnestly into each other's eyes.
"Kasia, can it really be you? How could you possibly be here?"
"It's really me, and getting here didn't take much planning. Lech got shot up and I had to eject behind the
enemy lines. I was captured and given the choice of being shot or enlisting in the Serbian Army. Then
when they put me in a new tank, she told me that I was back in the Croatian Army, and before too long I
was selected to be a colonel. I was the only one promoted out of the five Kashubian POWs who were
enlisted here. But why are we standing here talking? Eva! Take us to my cottage!"
And we were there.
"Eva? Well, that explains why I didn't know you were here sooner. The other half of the tanks are
Agnieshkas, and she would have recognized you right off." I said as Kasia was busily taking off my
clothes and I fumbled with hers.
Generated by ABC Amber LIT Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abclit.html
"Soyou are the hero that everyone has been talking about! I should have known!"
"I'm a hero all right. Hero first class, with thunderbolts and an oak leaf cluster!"
"That's wonderful," she said, kissing me while shoving me into bed. "Now, shut up."
I shut up, and it was a few hours before we got back to the classroom.
"Now that we'refinally all back together, we can begin the orientation lecture," the professor said. "You
may call me Professor Cee. It will be at least two months before the division that we command will be
even partly trained, and we will be using that time to train you, the division's officers, as well. Your course
of training will be quite extensive and will take eight years to complete. Upon satisfactory completion of
the course, you will each be granted a Ph.D. in Military Science.
"The time difference between two months and eight years will cause us no difficulty because the
computational abilities of a Combat Control Computer are such that I can keep you all in Dream World
at Combat Speed, which subjectively is approximately fifty times as fast as normal time. We shall have
time enough to complete the course while only two months go by in the real world. You may look on this
as being one of the fringe benefits of your currently exalted positions, for as of the moment that this class
first started, your life spans each became fifty times longer. At least subjectively they will seem to be that
much longer, and what else is there? [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]