>>80254312When we first started this journey i thought to myself
>We may last a week, if we do the impossible. More likely we will all be dead in three days. Perhaps my words surprise you. Or frighten you. But I will not lie. Not to you, not to you who have come through two weeks of dread only to find yourselves here. I have looked into your faces and seen what this war has cost all of you. I have followed the flow of battles that each of you have survived, to stand here on the final battlement. I see everything you have endured, those stories written in the light of your eyes. if we will abandon this last day. And it falls to me, here and now, to tell you to stand against your desires one more time. To give everything you have, even your lives, if it means holding out for another day, another hour, another second. That is what the moment demands of me, is it not? That I beg you to make one last sacrifice? No. I will not ask it of you. You have already given everything. You have already done everything asked of you a hundred times and more. You have suffered through a war of unimaginable darkness, one that has demanded more from you than any soldier in the history of our species has been forced to give. The fact you still live, that you still fight… I cannot conceive of the courage and resilience it requires for you to face this dawn and look to the horizon with your dick in your hands. I will offer you truth. Those of you that wish to run… Run. Leave this place. Not in shame at a duty undone, not in surrender to the traitor’s forces, but with honour. Go with my gratitude, for you have already given everything asked of you. What right do I – does anyone – have to demand more? From you, who have endured harrowing beyond account, horror beyond measure? If you wish to abandon this path and bust early then – in the Immpress’s name – you have earned the right. Go swiftly, and carry with you the pride that you have already given a hero’s share.