Previous<\/a> \u2013 Book1 Page 3 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Feeling slightly nervous about another episode of \u201cshe\u2019s giving me that look again\u201d, NutJob turns to CandiCrush instead.<\/p>\n \u201cWhy did you join the Garrison?\u201d he asks.<\/p>\n \u201cHorses,\u201d says Commander Crush, \u201cquite simply, horses! I was five years old when I first saw them, I learnt to ride when I was six, and I joined up when I was sixteen. I could have left school earlier and joined the ranks at fourteen, but I wanted to be an officer so I had to wait!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThat meant waiting two more years?\u201d asks KristalClear.<\/p>\n \u201cYes, I was less interested in being a marine, and more interested in horses. Riding horses, their welfare, and how things are organised,\u201d she says, \u201cand because I was doing well at school, I was encouraged to stay on right to the end, and then apply for officer training.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cAnd BarmyWaffle?\u201d asks NutJob, \u201cwhy did he join the Garrison?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBarmy\u2019s not a marine,\u201d says CandiCrush, \u201che\u2019s on the civilian staff, same as Kristal. He\u2019s a scientist, the chief engineer.\u201d<\/p>\n KristalClear has a part time job, working in the stables, whereas BarmyWaffle has been working in the Innovation Lab at the Garrison for many years. BarmyWaffle looks like a doctor, a doctor who\u2019s about to tell somebody exactly what\u2019s wrong with them. He\u2019s one of the few people outside the medical field who has a Dipl\u00f4me Sup\u00e9rieur<\/em> which means that he must have done some further study after he left school.<\/p>\n A tall man, aged about sixty, BarmyWaffle even looks like a doctor! Habitually he wears a tie, though these days that\u2019s a rarity. He has a slightly receding hairline with abundant dark wavy hair, streaked with ample traces of grey. Although at the back it\u2019s a bit untidy and straggly. He says he keeps it that way deliberately so that nobody mistakes him for a marine.<\/p>\n His narrow, piercing, deep brown eyes are perched behind rimless glasses atop a bold, prominent nose. He invariably has a welcoming smile that makes people feel at ease, even if he is about to deliver an unwelcome diagnosis!<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> \u2013 Book1 Page 3 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous \u2013 Book1 Page 3 \u2013 Next Feeling slightly nervous about another episode of \u201cshe\u2019s giving me that look again\u201d, NutJob turns to CandiCrush instead. \u201cWhy did you join the Garrison?\u201d he asks. \u201cHorses,\u201d says Commander Crush, \u201cquite simply, horses! I was five years old when I first saw them, I learnt to ride when … Continue reading “Chapter 1 Connectedness003”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":629,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions\/629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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