"you need anything else or are you good"
"Actually can i get one of the books out of my bag so i can read it"
"sure"
After Brad walks away Arthur is left alone in a white room with the bare necessities to live. a bed, sink, toilet, and that's it.
'that was a good meal' Arthur thinks back to the food they gave him when he arrived it was probably the best think he has eaten in weeks. The problem was it was literally someones leftover fast food that they no longer wanted.
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"GET DOWN"
Arthur yells before pulling down a new recruit as a mortar shell explodes feet away.
"GET UP YOU SORRY SACKS OF SHIT, REINFORCE THE LEFT FLANK" Arthur gets up and immediately starts yelling orders ignoring the shell shock. He pulls out his radio and starts screaming orders into it again.
Arthur wasn't the best general that ever lived but he was able to gain the respect of the enemy and of his troops. He didn't sit back in a bunker giving orders he would take the front lines just like the rest of them. He was at the top of the food chain here and nobody dared to tell him otherwise cause his platoon was the most successful in all the army.
"LADS REGROUP AT HQ" Arthur yells his command as he notices the defending army pulling back for the night.
"how about we get some grub haha" Arthur is pulling the recruit that almost got blown up earlier with his arm around him. the recruit cant even hear anything but he sees his general pulling him so he follows.
as they walk you can hear a very faint buzzing getting louder. as arthur is laughing you can see all the soldiers in the back look up in shear terror, before someone yells "BOMBERS!!!"
"ARRRRGGGGHHHH
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HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"
"ARTHUR WAKE UP!!"
"what what happened"
"Arthur its ok calm down" Brad starts to calm Arthur down after finally getting him awake
"i left you for 20 minutes and come back to you screaming you ok?"
"...Yeah im fine just got stuck in my memories again" Arthur replies while visibly exhausted after experiencing that again.
"how about i leave the book here and you just get some rest"
"yeah that sound like a good idea.....Brad do you remember that night"
"....which one..."
"when they bombed us, when i lost my legs"
"yeah"
"do you think they did it on purpose knowing i wouldn't push if they retreated"
"Arthur we don't know that"
"i think they did, i think they knew i wouldn't kick someone who's down, i wouldn't push against soldiers for crimes of their generals."
"Arthur stop"
"i killed those men, if we would have stayed put we would have seen em coming or at least the bombs wouldn't have dropped on all of us. we could have even chased them down and stopped it all together cause they wouldn't have bombed their own men..."
"Arthur go to bed you cant change the past"
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"ARTHUR STAY WITH US"
'where am i' Arthur cant help looking around him noticing hes in a tent with people running around urgently.
'what are these tubes?' He notices the wires and tubes sticking out his arms, chest, and neck connected to bags.
"Arthur look here at me"
Arthur can hear brad talking to him but he is focused on other things
'wh..where are my legs' and thats when the pain sets in.
Arthur stays long enough awake to see the mangled mess of what was his legs and doctors running over with what looks like a saw before he passes out again.