Taisce Moore is a knight with a shining M4. (taisce) wrote in immune_ic,
"I'm glad he worries about you, would worry a bit myself if he didn't," she tucked her hair behind an ear and reached in to start helping Ellie empty the box. "I'm more than content to stay here and hold the fort." She pursed her lips a bit. "And I realize that may make me sound cowardly. I'm not. Really."
She was trying to form her thoughts, and her mouth was getting ahead of her. She took a moment to regather her thoughts before she continued.
"Give me a rifle and train me to defend the lives of myself and my fellow soldiers for six years of my life, but put me behind a desk where the threat isn't there. That's what my Army career was. Mostly because they didn't approve of women grunts. So I'm accustomed to the semblance of safety, I guess."
Taisce paused to write in some of the items that she was sure would be put to good use.
"I don't know, maybe I am a coward. But I've managed to not get bitten this long. I guess I'm afraid that my luck's gonna run out."
She nodded in agreement when Ellie mentioned O'Brien's "calling". "Yeah, that sounds about right."