Darcy could hardly get his own thoughts in order enough to decide what he would say to Owen when the other man finally picked up the phone. Technically, he shouldn’t have had to think about it. There was a protocol for these sort of things, it was basically a script. But this wasn’t some call to a family he had never met about a soldier he had barely known. This was his godson’s best friend.
“Lieutenant Colonel,” he returned automatically, when Owen’s voice cut through the line. “This is Lieutenant-” Darcy cut himself off, dropped the formalities. It sounded so stupid in the shadow of the news he had. “...it’s Darcy,” he said his own name on the end of a sigh. His free hand lifted to pinch the skin between his eyes.
“I’m calling about Sanders.” His voice sounded hollow and distant in his own ears. Echoing through the receiver. “I’ve just been informed that we’ve lost transmission with Captain Strafford who was on a routine supply drop through the Himalayas.” Darcy had accidentally slipped into the more formal method of relaying the information. He thought it would be easier. It wasn’t. “It is possible his plane has gone down near Mount Kailash.” Hypotheticals, he reminded himself. Nothing was for certain. “It’s a hotbed of the insurgency. It’s possible that his signal has just been jammed, but we’ve relayed search and rescue teams nonetheless.”
“Lieutenant Colonel,” he returned automatically, when Owen’s voice cut through the line. “This is Lieutenant-” Darcy cut himself off, dropped the formalities. It sounded so stupid in the shadow of the news he had. “...it’s Darcy,” he said his own name on the end of a sigh. His free hand lifted to pinch the skin between his eyes.
“I’m calling about Sanders.” His voice sounded hollow and distant in his own ears. Echoing through the receiver. “I’ve just been informed that we’ve lost transmission with Captain Strafford who was on a routine supply drop through the Himalayas.” Darcy had accidentally slipped into the more formal method of relaying the information. He thought it would be easier. It wasn’t. “It is possible his plane has gone down near Mount Kailash.” Hypotheticals, he reminded himself. Nothing was for certain. “It’s a hotbed of the insurgency. It’s possible that his signal has just been jammed, but we’ve relayed search and rescue teams nonetheless.”
I fear no fate (for you are my fate, my sweet) I want no world (for beautiful you are my world, my true) and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you.
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