Seventh Dispatch - [voice]/[action]

[captainhornblower]

[Horatio Hornblower's voice is very calm, very quiet. It sounds... not even curious. He is almost stating a fact, rather than asking a question.]

Lieutenant Bush's things are gone.

Why? What is the meaning of this?

[His housemates... will find him in his own room now, seated at his desk, the journal lying open in front of him-- if they dare disturb.]

Comments

[Voice]

[captainhornblower]

It's... very sudden. Still. It is no different than a loss in battle. [Or so he keeps telling himself.]

[Voice]

[wise_maiden]

It's not quite so morbid as that.

[Voice]

[captainhornblower]

No, forgive me.

[From his tone, though, he isn't convinced that it's not.]