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Tobias here. I just thought I’d put in a little note myself. We got around to reading Rachel’s thing, which was actually weirdly enlightening. I mean, I speak with Rachel often, but it’s not like reading someone’s personal account of battle or whatever you’d call what she did.
But I wanted to be very clear about one thing she said. I am not a casualty of this war. I may have messed up, but it’s not like I’m out. I can’t even be considered wounded. At this point, I’m the most experienced look out and reconnaissance man we’ve got and, when the mission goes down, I get them the information they need to get out safe. I am mission control.
So I am not a casualty. I put in just as much time and fight as the rest of them. And, yeah, sometimes I’m not in as risky a situation as them, but sometimes I end up in a tight situation when they’re out safe. So I don’t really want this pity from anyone, and I certainly don’t want it to be taught to you.
Whoever is reading this.
I knew I wanted to say that, but I didn’t think it’d really be enough. I mean, Rachel put out her emotions, and Tom wrote that account of Elfangor. Ax found that hard to read, but he prefers knowing what happened.
I should probably mention he’s typing for me. So this is actually both of us. I’d write for myself, but there hasn’t be a keyboard for talons yet. Ax says you won’t be interested in his perspective, being an alien, but I don’t think that’s true. Regardless, we’re working on this together.
We actually wrote these in stints. We finished this part up last, just to make sure you knew what you were in for. It was actually really helpful to get this out there. I thought I’d already gotten used to being a nothlit. That’s the official term, by the way, for someone stuck in morph. We don’t really have a human equivalent, so that’s straight up Andalite language for you. But I really did feel some closure to get this out, maybe because a lot of it happened before the Ax-man was here.
Anyway, I apologize for the wait after Rachel’s account, but here’s what I have to add. And, actually, I think I will leave this open ended. It’s a good place to leave a lot of these things that are in between the missions. Or during as well. But I’ll just keep it up as my little message board to you. Mission control, out.