After three or four songs, she took out the earbud and said, "Steve, I'm really sorry but I'm freezing." She let her words hang in the air and I felt ...the need to respond."Do you want me to zip both our sleeping bags together so you can cuddle up for some warmth?" I said tentatively."I don't know whether that's appropriate?" she said shyly, "but I am really cold."I didn't know quite what to say but I reflected on the last few days and tried to reassure her. "Jessica, we seem to have got on. You refuse to spend money on clothes, hell you won’t even take a cab unless the underground is no longer running! And then there’s the liquorice and the sodding cheese sandwiches for lunch and the frankly insane volume of dairy that we go through in a week and moaning about bread and all the rest of it, but I signed up for that so that’s fine. But the egalitarianism ... There is a LINE, you know! That HAS to stop SOMEWHERE! It’s the POPE! Could you PLEASE, for ONCE in your life accept there is. No, I will have your men do that for me."There were ten wounded men who were now on their feet and the arrows had been removed from their wounds. Cedric's men were going round collecting all their arrows from the ground and from the bodies of the dead. They had lost fifty per cent of their group in less than a minute, and it was obvious that they had no stomach to try anything else."Firstly I want you to bury or burn your dead. Then I want you to execute your leader. If you fail to do any of. I managed to get myself under control and explained what kind of army I wanted. They couldn't understand the value of a guerrilla army, nor could they understand how to lead them. That did it! I fired the whole crew and decided to be my own general. Sub officers would be selected from the ranks without regard to gender.I called the recruits together and addressed them. I said that I would be their leader and they would all get the opportunity to be officers and leaders. I was going to divide.
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