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Lodestar: Meaning there are a fuck ton of men called that?
Eagle Eyes: Yup. But they’re specific to a certain family in the Kembesh region in Afghanistan.
Lodestar: This is going to give me a headache.
Eagle Eyes: Look at it this way, they were all Taliban. Whoever you killed, he deserved to die.
Lodestar: Nothing is ever that simple.
Lodestar: Why would a soldier, dying on the field, tell his boyfriend to ask you about him?
Eagle Eyes: Huh. I don’t know. Which ‘field’ did he die on?
Eagle Eyes: I mean, the DMKs (that’s what we called ‘em) were asswipes. They were the dicks who got some mustard gas from their ancient armory and sprayed it over the battlefields of Kamor.
Lodestar: Dude, that was THEM?
Eagle Eyes: Yeah. One fam. I’m telling ya. All. Fuckin’. Douches. This is strictly on the DL, btw, Lodestar.
Lodestar: Figured that out myself. What was your mission? Take out the leader?
Eagle Eyes: Great-Grandpa DMK, yup. Alleged ties to Bin Laden himself and, they say, friends with a bunch of oligarchs in Russia. They were the ones who fed guns through Pakistan into Afghanistan.
Lodestar: Russian oligarchs?
Eagle Eyes: Yup. You know they had their mitts all over Afghanistan.
Lodestar: You remember the names of those Russians?
Eagle Eyes: Jesus, we’re talking intel from years back, Star. If I remember, I’ll let you know, K?
Lodestar: For sure. Appreciate that.
Eagle Eyes: As for the soldier telling his partner to ask me about DMK, I can only think it’s because Kembesh was the gateway for Russian arms. Who was the brother?
Lodestar: Dominic Ellis.
Eagle Eyes: Ah, shit. Good man. Fucking brilliant soldier. I loved being attached to his squadron. You said Nic told his partner? Maverick, right? They tried to cover it up, but Nic’s PTSD was fucking horrific by the time Kembesh hit. TBH, I loved the man but it’d have been either enemy fire or his own bullet. That’s how fucked he was.
Lodestar: It’s criminal that the higher-ups didn’t let him retire.
Eagle Eyes: Too good at what he did. Plus, what he didn’t know about the local topography wasn’t worth knowing. Honestly, he was like a mountain goat.
Eagle Eyes: Back then, we were losing ground, not gaining it. Nic was key to some of the terrain we won back. Then, he died and the clusterfuck that was Kembesh got covered up.
Eagle Eyes: Swear to fuck, whoever served and fought there each has a different story to tell.
Lodestar: I’ve noticed that. Not totally unusual. The only thing anyone can agree on is that backup was non-existent.
Eagle Eyes: I wouldn’t tell anyone else this, because they’d think I was crazy, but I always said the whole thing was a setup anyway.
Lodestar: You’re talking to someone who’s the right kind of crazy to listen.
Eagle Eyes: Figured as much.
Eagle Eyes: I always thought it was to burn the DMKs.
Lodestar: What made you think that?
