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mistressmaryquitecontrary[PLACEHOLDER: SO STUFF HAS BEEN HAPPENING ON PYLEA OKAY???? HERE IS WHERE IT CAN GO!]
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Date: 2009-03-23 05:10 am (UTC)"You're meant to be sleeping," Mary says. Her voice is pitched low - which is a real effort, for Mary - but it's not a whisper.
"So you can be well-rested for your turn."
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Date: 2009-03-23 05:18 am (UTC)One benefit of being a Gundam pilot is that you know exactly how hard you can push yourself. A few nights of shorter sleep are nothing.
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Date: 2009-03-23 05:25 am (UTC)What if Trowa falls asleep during his shift, huh? WHAT THEN.
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Date: 2009-03-23 05:45 am (UTC)"I've been a soldier all my life." Calmly.
In situations like this, soldier is still present tense.
"I'm fine."
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Date: 2009-03-26 03:43 am (UTC)"Soldiers sleep, too. It is important for an army to be fed and rested. People who are exhausted perform at lower levels."
She's studied tactics!
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Date: 2009-03-26 04:14 am (UTC)Trowa nods slightly, but says, calmly, "I'm not exhausted."
"It's important to assess performance levels accurately and without assumptions. I'd be asleep if I needed to be."
Not with a civilian twelve-year-old on solo watch in hostile territory, he wouldn't be, or at least not so deeply he wouldn't wake at small noises. But Mary doesn't need to know that part.
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Date: 2009-03-26 04:30 am (UTC)"Especially if they are tired, because then their judgment is impaired. It is like when people are drunk - and they say that they are not, because they are too drunk to understand that they are."
Also: she's thirteen, Trowa. Get with the picture!
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Date: 2009-03-26 04:39 am (UTC)As he just said.
(Trowa's voice is a low murmur, just loud enough for Mary to hear, as it has been this whole conversation. Voices carry at night.)
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Date: 2009-03-26 05:24 am (UTC)A little grudging: "Yes - but just because they ought to be able to, does not mean that people can."
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Date: 2009-03-26 05:37 am (UTC)Trowa doesn't say that.
He waits, instead. Pop quiz, Mary! Will you retrace this conversation and find the logical conclusion, or will you argue at him some more?
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Date: 2009-03-26 05:41 am (UTC)"I do not know what you can do - or how trustworthy you are at assessing your own performance levels."
Two can play at that game, Trowa!
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Date: 2009-03-26 06:05 am (UTC)It's also a hazard of life. (Trowa's solution has been a delicate balance of paranoia, self-sufficiency, and learning to accurately assess other people without asking for their input in the matter.)
"You don't," he agrees, calmly and unhelpfully.
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Date: 2009-03-30 03:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-03 03:48 am (UTC)"Beyond that, it takes time for the data to accumulate."
In other words: you'll just have to wait and see if you can't already tell, won't you.
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Date: 2009-04-03 04:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-03 04:07 am (UTC)Do with this what you will, Mary.
But keep in mind that if you have to be steered sleepily along tomorrow, everybody will be grumpy.
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Date: 2009-04-04 02:51 am (UTC)Whether or not he thinks she has to is not the point!
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Date: 2009-04-04 07:02 am (UTC)Suit yourself, Mary.