[Though he regrets carrying the gun a little these days. He's all of twenty-eight, and there are already mornings where he wakes up and his knee is locked, a late protestation of carrying the extra load.]
I am from a small farming village. Fewer than five hundred people. I was always bigger than the others.
[Which lead to amusing situations and circumstances like being rattled out of bed in the early hours of the morning to help with some farming disaster. Overturned tractors, cows or sheep trapped in crevasses, people relied on his strength well before the war. It didn't bother him. That was the point of community, and when his family had disasters of their own, there were always helping hands in excess.]
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No, to both.
[Though he regrets carrying the gun a little these days. He's all of twenty-eight, and there are already mornings where he wakes up and his knee is locked, a late protestation of carrying the extra load.]
I am from a small farming village. Fewer than five hundred people. I was always bigger than the others.
[Which lead to amusing situations and circumstances like being rattled out of bed in the early hours of the morning to help with some farming disaster. Overturned tractors, cows or sheep trapped in crevasses, people relied on his strength well before the war. It didn't bother him. That was the point of community, and when his family had disasters of their own, there were always helping hands in excess.]