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[sparking]

You've reached the office of Colonel Roy Mustang.
You know what to do.

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Voice; @oldmaster

[horncrown]

Colonel.

voice / @rmustang;

[sparking]

... Yes?

[horncrown]

You were the one that recently tried to light the lava around us on fire, weren't you?

[sparking]

( heck. )

Not the lava specifically, no.

( technically, he is telling the truth. )

[horncrown]

[ An amused chuckle. ]

That would be redundant, wouldn't it?

[sparking]

Precisely.

What idiot would actually try to set Hell on fire?

( lol jk this one. )

[horncrown]

Certainly not someone who's a colonel.

[sparking]

One would assume.

But one would also assume someone of that rank would think to check to see if the door they were trying to blast through was sealed, first.

[horncrown]

Which makes me wonder how your army fares, or do you come from times of [ a moment ] peace.

[sparking]

Peace, more or less.

( there's a beat of a pause on his own end. )

It won't my my army until I've made it to Fuhrer. I've only ever fought in someone else's war.

[horncrown]

Is that a goal?

[sparking]

You could say that.

[horncrown]

[ Ah, ambition. Good. ]

And what is it you wish for were you to become this Fuhrer?

[sparking]

( if a man doesn't have that, what does he have? )

To cultivate my country into something better for its people. And ... do what I can to amend past wrongs.

( like returning a holy land to its people. )

[horncrown]

A noble gesture. I had dedicated myself to something like this, once.

[ Politics and war. Ah, yes. Maul knew these things. Although he supposed conversation would provide more beneficial than twenty-questions. ]

[sparking]

And how did that work out for you?

( he could be more subtle about it, he knows that, but subtlety and one ( 1 ) roy mustang rarely mix well. )

[horncrown]

It didn't. [ No, his was not a tale of triumph. His destiny laid in always being just in reach but never more. ]

[sparking]

I'm sorry.

( it's unfortunate when that happens, but sometimes, that just ends up being the way of it. )

What happened, if I may ask?

[horncrown]

[ Indeed it is. ]

The same thing that always happens in war. Betrayal.