This is another Aries saving Pisces themed story.

“There was one other girl I worked with… or I was in training with her in the military and she was never going to make it. She couldn’t find her way in the field so I decided to help her. Well I helped her and I had her help me. We made a trade. Because she’d really need to know the stuff they wanted her to know to pass the course. She was never going to see combat.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah, we had these various things we had to complete and she was never going to make it through the land navigation. She just couldn’t do it. And they had this other stuff we had to memorize and she was good at that but I wasn’t interested in it at all. So I told her if she would do my book work, I’d help her pass the land navigation because it was pantywaist navigation anyway. And I had already been named the best scout in the Army.”

“You were named that?”

“Yeah. And then I was named the best scout in the world so you know. This was nothing to me. I love this kind of stuff. I’m good at it.”

“Apparently.”

“Yeah. So we had to go around to these different points out in the woods. It was a like a course they have set up and you had to find your way. So I told her I would run through mine, I figured it would take me about 30 minutes. I think we had like… four hours. So I told her she could just stand there… well she could move around but basically she should stay one place so I could find her when I’d finished my course. And she had no idea where to go anyway. She just had no aptitude for this sort of thing at all so no use for her to even try to find the first point. I don’t think she could have done it if she had all day.”

“That bad?”

“Yeah, she just couldn’t do it. There was no way in hell. And she didn’t need to do it because like I said. She wasn’t going into combat so I didn’t think she should flunk out for failing something that would be of no use to her anyway.”

“Yeah?”

“Yeah, so I was going to run through mine then go back to where she was and she was to watch for me. Once she saw me and we made eye contact, I told her to drop her clipboard. We had these clipboards and I told her to drop hers on the ground because we weren’t allowed to talk to each other. So she drops it, steps away and I would come pick it up. On the clipboard were her instructions, see. How to get through the course.”

“I see.”

“Yeah, so I ran through her navigation for her and she just followed me… she was to shadow me and when I got about 5 feet from where she was supposed to be, I dropped the clipboard and fell back, then she came out and picked it up and walked to her spot to get checked off.”

I laughed.

“And we just kept doing it like that all through the course.”

“Did this work?”

“Uh huh.”

“Did she do her bit for you?” T

“Uh huh.”

“Okay, good. I like your story. I’m glad you helped that girl.”

“Yeah I did but you don’t know how much I like this stuff. I love land navigation. I wish I had a course I could go through right now.”

I managed not to laugh.