“We’re out of ammo.” Rad Boy said this in a conversational tone that belied the urgency of the situation. “I’m out of ideas. It was yours to come here. How do you propose we get out?” He reached for his flask, but stopped with a shake of his head after remembering that we’d drained the rest before this latest caper in a premature celebration. He eyed me with a questioning gaze.

A problem with being the Captain is that people expect you to always have a certain insouciance about extreme peril, preceding a brash and crazy-enough-to-work idea that saves the day. Or your skin. Either way, this is part of a long tradition of expectations being completely at odds with reality. Truth was, I was scared shitless and in no mood to be brash or brilliant. In fact, I was ready to give it up and face the consequences, whatever they might be, just to put an end to this all.

But that’s what I wanted, and probably wasn’t something that had even crossed Rad Boy’s mind. I couldn’t let him down, not after all he’d been through for me. Inwardly, I gritted my teeth and sighed, but all that I let show on the outside was a flash of what I hoped was inspiration and not desperation in my eyes.

I’m getting ahead of myself, though. I used to not be the Captain, used to not know Rad Boy or any of the other well meaning but foolish people who unknowingly signed on to what would probably be their demise, and used to be a fairly normal fellow who could still laugh without a trace of irony and look at himself in the mirror without barely suppressing an incredulous stare of disdain.

Mawkish, I know. Disgustingly so, I might add. But, in these darker moments, undeniably true. Here’s how it started:

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