Well, [ she says, the word riding on a breath of laughter, ] I've never been one for sitting around and twiddling my thumbs.
[ Far from it. She'd tried, once upon a time, convinced it was the best decision. But looking back, even before she'd been recruited by the SOE and jumped headlong behind enemy lines, she still was trying to do her bit with codebreaking. Desk work will always seem tame by comparison but it wasn't nothing, either. Turns out she'd been staying true to form all along.
Peggy glances back out to the grounds, still smiling a little. ]
Maybe that's why I joined up with the Royal Guard here. Going on patrol can be rather dull but it's better than being a secretary. [ The way she says it is meant to imply that was her job before waking up on Thesa. ] Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. But I doubt there's much of a demand for answering telephones here.
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[ Far from it. She'd tried, once upon a time, convinced it was the best decision. But looking back, even before she'd been recruited by the SOE and jumped headlong behind enemy lines, she still was trying to do her bit with codebreaking. Desk work will always seem tame by comparison but it wasn't nothing, either. Turns out she'd been staying true to form all along.
Peggy glances back out to the grounds, still smiling a little. ]
Maybe that's why I joined up with the Royal Guard here. Going on patrol can be rather dull but it's better than being a secretary. [ The way she says it is meant to imply that was her job before waking up on Thesa. ] Not that there's anything wrong with that, of course. But I doubt there's much of a demand for answering telephones here.