“Afraid of heights?” Helmer asked. “Perfect. You really are a mixed-up lad. You come here full of defiance and anger, and then you show up and you’re a horrible, hobbled mess. You spend a week with me, and now you’re such an efficient student it’s scaring me and I begin to think you might someday be some kind of decent soldier. And now this."
“I’m willing to work and overcome anything, sir. Including this,” Picket choked out.
“Don’t worry,” Helmer said. “It’s just another enemy to be taken down in the end.”
From S. D. Smith's The Green Ember.
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