( the shutdown is near immediate, his expression flickers into careful neutrality an' the language of his body — easy an' open up until this point, shifts to somethin' altogether on-edge. it's one thing to joke about progress, but. he's still very much a man of his time, an' in his time, that manner of implication's somethin' that could see him slapped with a dishonorable discharge or even shot. it'd be a fool who'd deprive their company of a medic for that manner of thing, but. plenty of those in war, an' he an' alex had been so, so careful. even on shared furlough, if they'd been at the same billet they'd leave bars at different times or take different roads to it, an' even then they ain't never had time for more than kisses stolen in the dark.
it takes him an obvious, tangible effort to. uncoil. ease down, breathe. he knows kyna didn't mean anythin' by it, an' if there ain't no segregation an' ladies can serve as front line fighters an' all that other stuff, it stands to reason that men inclined towards men or women inclined towards women wouldn't be much different. he lets out a breath an' some of the tension goes with it, which ain't nothin'. )
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it takes him an obvious, tangible effort to. uncoil. ease down, breathe. he knows kyna didn't mean anythin' by it, an' if there ain't no segregation an' ladies can serve as front line fighters an' all that other stuff, it stands to reason that men inclined towards men or women inclined towards women wouldn't be much different. he lets out a breath an' some of the tension goes with it, which ain't nothin'. )
No. He weren't about that.