Companion art to fic: En Bon Desir.
Punished, as a boy.
Caleb tries to put himself in a favorable position for the inevitable. It doesn't work out.
In the early days of the Russo-Japanese War, a disciplinary episode results in Sugimoto Saichi being transferred from the 1st to the 7th Division. It doesn't take long to figure out that Russian gunfire might pose him less danger than the tangled web of a unit in which he's ended up.