C97 Which Side?

"What?" Horace was jolted, nearly knocked out by the "bombshell" of news.

What kind of day was today? One crushing piece of news after another was piling onto his already overburdened shoulders, threatening to flatten him completely.

If it weren't for the life-and-death battles he'd faced in recent months, as routine as dinner, and the hellish training that had honed his body, nerves