A View From the Ice 7
Podporucznik Nina Kościuszko had her helmet under her arm as she walked into the hanger breathing in the heady scents of grease, burning metal from the welding torches and the general smells of an active hanger. She sighed contentedly as she walked over to her
Winged Hussar which she called
Tur.
She waved to the techs she passed as she approached her own tech, Plutonowy Adam.
"Hey Adam," Nina said, "How's
Tur today?"
"Your steed ma'am is all ready to go," Adam said with a grin, "just finished repairing the leg actuator."
"Good!" she said smiling back, "You're a lifesaver."
"It's what I do ma'am," He said with a shrug.
She climbed into the cockpit and began booting up the mech as Adam does the external checks on the exterior of the Hussar.
"Ok, your all good out here," Adam said into his com.
"Good in here as well," Nina said, "Heading out now."
"Ok Ma'am, see you in in a few hours," Adam said as he backed off.
She walked
Tur into the centre then boost off using the hover system and headed out into the snow. She loved this thing she had always loved watching the old PZL P13 airbreather take off when she was in the Academy on Nowa Warszawa and hoped she could fly one. However, the invasion had ruined those dreams and the Dracs, after her capture in a failed ambush among other things, had made other dreams medically impossible.
But skimming over the ice and snow in
Tur was amazing. Seeing everything streak past over the majestic white desert as she went over the snow. She sped over to Nav Point Alfa and settled into her usual routine of scanning the horizon and enjoying the thrill of speeding over the snowscape as she made her way out on her patrol.
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Michal watched from the window as the
Winged Hussar moved off on patrol. It had been an inspired idea by their unit's command and he knew a lot of them made the most of it.
He heard the door open and looked over to see Major Park coming in.
"Park," he said moving around the desk to shake his friend's hand, "how are you doing today? Did the interviews go well with intelligence?"
"Too well I think. Most of them are legitimately scared of Jakub now," Park said shaking his head, "After your debrief with them and speaking to Rowecki among others they said your guys gave them a good brief on the Dracs ground side capabilities and responses. Though Jakub sacred the hell out of them with some of the stuff he said. Hell I think I saw a few of them taking notes."
"He has that effect on people," Michal said.
"I can see that," Park said with a sigh, "Though given the tricks Rowecki and Jakub taught my troops in hand to hands I'm looking forward to some of my guys going against some of the other infantry companies in hand to hand competitions."
"Those two are some of the best-unarmed fighters we have," Michal said, "Hell Park I told you Jakub was one of the Cichociemni."
"True," Park said, "Anyway looks like everything is going well. No major explosions and the Queen taking the side of the Senate was a good thing."
"Aye," Michal said, "Misha was telling me that because of the Queen's actions along with all the support, the Winged Hussars and along with all the infrastructure that has been built has gone a long way to supporting the integration faction of the Sejm."
"That's good," Park said, "that will help a put lot of people's mind at ease well aside from the chamber of delegates."
They both laugh at that, "Anyway," Michal said, "how is your wife?"
"She is doing well," Park said, "In fact...."
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Old Leopold smiled as he spoke to one of his allies in the Sejm. Things were going well. The Pro-Integration faction was making headway and given the autonomy, they were being given under the Imperial Government was really helping his case.
It was also setting a lot of their people's minds at ease, he said his goodbyes and left heading toward his son's house. He had proposed to his Grif girlfriend and they were looking at planning there wedding.
He whistled as he walked through the snow towards their house. He was looking forward to the wedding as it would be nice to see his family grow.
Note: Thanks again to sunhawk for the Beta