He minds a lot. And not just because no commander worth anything dislikes being at a disadvantage.
It grates on him, a niggle on his nerves from the temporal displacement that's turned the textbook officer who'd reminded him so much of his dead best friend and betrayer into a man who apparently deals in sarcasm and quips. Like Gaheris' sharp, dry wit twisted and amplified.
A man with knowledge and understanding of him a man he'd met weeks ago can't have. History with him that Dylan won't know until he's lived it.
Dylan runs a hand along the side of his neck.
"You're gonna hold it over my head, is that it?"
There's a lot of temptation there, right in front of him. Temptation he knows he has to resist. He knows that what happens now, what he learns, could change the future.
"I don't want to know."
And anything he learns from Rhade could cancel out that future. The one where there is a Commonwealth.
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He minds a lot. And not just because no commander worth anything dislikes being at a disadvantage.
It grates on him, a niggle on his nerves from the temporal displacement that's turned the textbook officer who'd reminded him so much of his dead best friend and betrayer into a man who apparently deals in sarcasm and quips. Like Gaheris' sharp, dry wit twisted and amplified.
A man with knowledge and understanding of him a man he'd met weeks ago can't have. History with him that Dylan won't know until he's lived it.
Dylan runs a hand along the side of his neck.
"You're gonna hold it over my head, is that it?"
There's a lot of temptation there, right in front of him. Temptation he knows he has to resist. He knows that what happens now, what he learns, could change the future.
"I don't want to know."
And anything he learns from Rhade could cancel out that future. The one where there is a Commonwealth.