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[personal profile] dropoffs 2024-03-15 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
As if I'm looking for more of it.

[ places hand over chest. oof ouch. and they'd do it again. ]

No, I'm happy to sit around for once until I pass out. The cot's killing my back lately.
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[personal profile] verminous 2024-03-15 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
Io, bud, do you not... have a bed?

[what do you mean, the cot. you're an officer. it's supposed to have BENEFITS.]
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[personal profile] dropoffs 2024-03-15 04:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ im in bed no more icons ]

I... have a bunk, but I tend to work into the night. So. It's my own doing.

[ they shuffle into one of the cots to die for a few hours. ]
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[personal profile] verminous 2024-03-15 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Haah, you're one of those types... you know, you can't fix anybody else's body if you can't even bend over with your own stiff spine.
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[personal profile] dropoffs 2024-03-15 04:54 am (UTC)(link)
I bend over just fine?

[ ???? ? ?? ]

Just takes a bit of extra stretching in the morning. That's all... can't kick the habit.
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[personal profile] verminous 2024-03-15 04:57 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sayin' you'll get to that point if you do it too long.
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[personal profile] dropoffs 2024-03-15 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm. I'll... keep it in mind.

[ sweats but it seems earnest anyways. ]

Sometimes it can't be helped. I've grown used to it.
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[personal profile] verminous 2024-03-15 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I get it. Done my fair share of sleeping on the ground and all, right? Not a lot else to do in the field. But if you can help it...
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[personal profile] dropoffs 2024-03-15 05:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[ a huff ]

The field, huh? Sounds familiar...

... Look... If I can help it, I'll make my way to my bed. It's just pretty far with everything locked down...

[ i think this is the only reason they decided to rec room... it's so close to their
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[personal profile] verminous 2024-03-15 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Mm. You a military man, Io?

[are they handshake emoji on that one...]

At least try and take some of that work to your bunk.
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[personal profile] dropoffs 2024-03-15 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I can attempt it.

[ IT! ATE THE REST OF MY TAG! they will probably still just be cot-sleepin'... like a loser... ]

I was a combat medic in the war for a while... 'fore I left back home. You?
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[personal profile] verminous 2024-03-15 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Front lines. Been about a decade since the end of that war, though.
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[personal profile] dropoffs 2024-03-15 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
The war was still in full force when I left...

[ a brief shake of the head. ]

Old habits like ticks. [ sucking the life outta you. and yet, you proceed, day by day. they just sink further into the couch. ]
Edited 2024-03-15 19:04 (UTC)