[ Paranoia, yeah, he fucking hopes. A step beyond the pale, past what he's willing to believe. But to sit with that thought, that guilt, ]
Would've been someone sent. Bad luck, or not. Would've been someone.
[ Another company. Maybe his own. The Rebellion is a shadow, stippled in points: First girl he killed. First time he might've died, first time a friend did. Then more of them. The Conclave, the Inquisition, and through it he never wrote a letter. Never stopped to ask much at all, not eighteen and a sword in his hand.
How many others did? How many, in that dead unit? ]
Dunno if no one wrote mine down. New Captain's not… well, he's Orlesian. But I worry, I mean. I wonder if this don't sign worse ahead. Telling folks we got a mandate, so we'll use it.
[ The only survivor. They don't talk about it much. Didn't, before, when any invocation felt it might bring the war back down on the Inquisition's head. The only survivor. Alone, save Antosha; and alone for that choice. ]
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[ Paranoia, yeah, he fucking hopes. A step beyond the pale, past what he's willing to believe. But to sit with that thought, that guilt, ]
Would've been someone sent. Bad luck, or not. Would've been someone.
[ Another company. Maybe his own. The Rebellion is a shadow, stippled in points: First girl he killed. First time he might've died, first time a friend did. Then more of them. The Conclave, the Inquisition, and through it he never wrote a letter. Never stopped to ask much at all, not eighteen and a sword in his hand.
How many others did? How many, in that dead unit? ]
Dunno if no one wrote mine down. New Captain's not… well, he's Orlesian. But I worry, I mean. I wonder if this don't sign worse ahead. Telling folks we got a mandate, so we'll use it.
[ The only survivor. They don't talk about it much. Didn't, before, when any invocation felt it might bring the war back down on the Inquisition's head. The only survivor. Alone, save Antosha; and alone for that choice. ]