"Survival School Days" ~ for What's my Line?

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Challenge: What’s My Line?

Prompt: “There’s no use in trying”

Title: Survival School Days

Author: mrua7
Word Count: Approx. 750

“There’s no use in trying! You’re nothing but a runt and you’ll never make it! Survival School is for real men, not Commie pussies like you!”

Those were the words shouted at a young Soviet recruit by Jules Cutter.

Kuryakin shook his head, but chose to remain silent as the head of U.N.C.L.E. Survival School obsessively hurled taunt after taunt at him. Some would have infuriated the average man, but Illya was not an average man. He had spent his life learning to control his emotions, and focus his energies on completing whatever task lay before him.

A few of his fellow recruits tried to defend him but he would hear nothing of it and he'd dismiss their efforts with a sharp wave of his hand. Not exactly the best way to gain friends, but he wasn't there to do that.

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