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slowly began to spread across her face.
    “So you want to break out into the world and be independent. You want to be autonomous, a great warrior, whatever. And you’ll be within walking distance of the farm?! Don’t overexert yourself there, soldier.”
    As he always tended to do in such moments, Toni wondered whether his sister loved him at all.
    “So tell me about this MEWAC.” She demanded.
    “It’s ... It’s a sort of fusion of old infantry and cavalry units from the Henderson and Kumato research hubs. Its home-base is the Adamastor warehouse.”
    “That a very big aquarium for such a small fish,” she remarked more to herself than to him, and for the briefest of moments he wasn’t too keen on getting there.
    Then he remembered what had most interested him about MEWAC in the first place; it was the outfit to join if one wanted to drive a Hammerhead Suit.
    “What about the Military Academy? It might be a bit much for you, but at least dad would respect you a little more.”
    Toni grimaced.
    “I applied for both the MA and the Army Sergeant School. The Academy didn’t even bother to reply, the Sergeant School just sent me the application form for MEWAC. I filled it in and got an answer yesterday.”
    “You mean I got an answer yesterday. You’ve been using my user account, I checked the activity log.”
    “I knew mom was checking up on mine, so ... yes.”
    “Wonderful. And their reply?”
    Toni grudgingly handed his sister the printed sheet, and her eyebrows slowly rose as she studied the document.
    “Two spelling mistakes ...” she commented. “Anyway, it says incorporation dependent upon approval . Which means you haven’t even been approved yet. To an outfit whose soldiers apparently don’t know how to spell, no less.”
    She handed the sheet back to Toni disdainfully and he refolded it, trying not to let his feelings show. He was already painfully aware of that fact, and it worried him terribly. He wondered whether soon he really would be eating the bark off trees.
    “I have to go.” He said.
    “Sure. I wouldn’t want to keep you from abandoning your family. However, mother told me that, if I chanced to come across you, it was my solemn responsibility to tell you to inform base medical services about your folic acid deficiency.”
    “My – what?!”
    “Yes, your folic acid deficiency. She never bothered to tell us about it, but she´s been supplementing our meals with the stuff, it’s apparently something that runs in her side of the family. Since you can be sure the army won’t be supplementing your meals, you’ll have to inform the medical service’s genetics department to get your pills.”
    Toni was dubious.
    “Does that even exist? I don’t need to know this and I’m certainly not going hang myself by the tongue at medical. Goodbye.” He muttered as he skirted his sister, giving her a wide berth.
    “That’s just fine, then, I’m sure you’ll be getting all the supplementation you need when you’re eating the bark off trees. I heard they’ve got a lot of folic acid here.” She taunted, rubbing the redwood beside her.
    It took him only a dozen steps to lose her in the fog.
    *****
    The sounds of the forest were beginning to make themselves heard. Toni checked his digital watch; it read a quarter past four in the morning, but of course the critters didn’t know that, and so they kept to whatever timetable they had figured for themselves. By the looks of it, at least some squirrels had decided it was daytime, and he could see a pair foraging among the roots of a Tanoak to his left. He wondered for the millionth time what true night might be like.
    Close your eyes and you’ll know , his father had joked the first time Toni asked that question.
    He had learned to never expect a straight answer from his father, and had long suspected that that was a treatment the old man reserved only for his son. He felt relieved once again to be walking away from Mushima farm. His encounter