[Despite the fact that what she's saying is impossible, he doesn't dare point it out. It's not his place to contradict anyone not under his direct command, and he has never been assigned to any unit outside of his own.
Her question is a strange one, though not for the asking of it; he's been required to report on his own status fairly regularly in the past, but it's never been a cautious, careful question. It's never mattered, not like that. It had been data for them, as important as fixing a timing belt or a valve on an engine and no more; necessary but droll.
He stiffens, oh so subtle but characteristically distinct, when she mentions Manticore, and then places herself outside of it. He cannot contradict her. But that, too, makes her impossible.]
I am functioning at full capacity with the exception of the injury and the current approved restrictions on my abilities, ma'am. All of my basic needs have been met and the medical care has been nothing short of exemplary.
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Her question is a strange one, though not for the asking of it; he's been required to report on his own status fairly regularly in the past, but it's never been a cautious, careful question. It's never mattered, not like that. It had been data for them, as important as fixing a timing belt or a valve on an engine and no more; necessary but droll.
He stiffens, oh so subtle but characteristically distinct, when she mentions Manticore, and then places herself outside of it. He cannot contradict her. But that, too, makes her impossible.]
I am functioning at full capacity with the exception of the injury and the current approved restrictions on my abilities, ma'am. All of my basic needs have been met and the medical care has been nothing short of exemplary.