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‘I told you, it was nothing’

‘So you say, but I ran into some of your old platoon in the field, and they didn’t see’

Ash frowned ‘My old platoon?’

‘Mick, Jonesy and another guythey called him Donald but I don’t think that was his name’

The na a trail of memories in their wake

‘Donaldson,’ Ash said quietly ‘His younger brother had died in an ambush a couple of months earlier’

‘I’m sorry; I didn’t know’

‘How could you have?’

‘They told renade’

He stared at the sun, now so low behind the horizon that it was beco quite dark up on the roof

‘I happened to be closest’ Ash shrugged ‘Any one of them would have done the same’

‘They said you’d say that’

‘Because they know it’s true’ Ash brushed it off easily

Fliss flashed hih the sun had sprung back up into the sky again It dazzled hiht which chased down to even the darkest corners

‘Maybe,’ she said ‘What about the other scars?’