@OWarsSpy "When?" Tobias questioned. It had been a thought - no, a reality - that the man would suspect him enough not to take it seriously. Toby couldn't blame him, not really, but the attack was just as much a part of reality as suspicions were.
@OWarsSpy Tobias blinked, opened his mouth to speak before really considering his words, and spoke probably ten seconds later.
"I.. I don't know," he told him, frowning. "They'd be on the-the-their way n-now. If you ride a f..few miles east of P-P-Port —
@EnvyTheSimple @OWarsSpy — Damn it! They kn-know the plans for P-Port Hudson, in Baton Rouge. They're send..sending in more men to counter it." All true, unless his brother had lied.
But he hadn't lied. The Confederacy were preparing to retaliate an attack —
@EnvyTheSimple @OWarsSpy — Union." Tobias didn't wait for an answer before continuing; he wanted it to be a quick thing, a get in-get out kind of deal. "The Con-Con-Con-Con.." He broke off, shouted at his own inability to speak and tried again: "Confeder.. —
@EnvyTheSimple @OWarsSpy — bound him to his brother were severed some few years ago.
He made a quick sweep of their surroundings once he got to the man's desk, and lowered his voice. "D-Don't ask me how..how I know - I just know you're in the.. in the —
@EnvyTheSimple @OWarsSpy — what he had meant to do. For a moment, he considered disregarding the man with a wave and scampering out the door. But the moment passed and Tobias found that he still had it in his heart to retaliate. Whatever ties that had once —
@EnvyTheSimple @OWarsSpy — that stammer (most mistook it for uncertainty rather than what it was: a simple impediment), yet he felt a sharp regret for having come at all. For the first time in his life, Tobias wondered whether or not he could continue with —
@EnvyTheSimple @OWarsSpy — man for the Confederacy. Toby hadn't and perhaps wouldn't have sided to one or the other if his personal life had not have gotten into it.
"Tallma..Tallmadge?" he questioned. Toby didn't sound unsure, didn't feel unsure despite —
@EnvyTheSimple @OWarsSpy It was a stupid thing, really, and absolutely none of his business. What provoked Tobias enough to pursue one for the Union was an act of revenge that, in part, wasn't even his to enact. Revenge against his brother, to clarify, a —
#MCM@EnvyTheSimple
May you ever endeavour the best in life
No matter who or what you saw
Your protection they need
From dastardly deeds
You disarmingly charming, keeper of law.