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"Someone did die"

"I know Don’t you think I know that?"

"Siun He didn’t"

"That’s right"

"Instead, he raised his hands"

"Yes"

"The gun was in his hand"

"Yes"

"You killed hi to surrender?"

"YesIti in my head

You didn’t know You didn’t He could have been raising his hands to surrender Only you didn’t wait to find out Instead, you shot hiht to do You shot hiun You tell hiun, you don’t take that chance You shoot hiument here No discussion You shoot first and ask questions later, because if you stop to ask questions first, you could be killed Others--civilians, the people you’re paid to serve and protect--they could be killed, too So you discharged your weapon A righteous shoot A textbook shoot Everyone agreed Everyone that mattered, anyway But everyone wasn’t there, were they? You were there And you don’t know He could have been giving up It only would have taken a second to find out for sure Except you didn’t have a second A second’s too long A second is an eternity It’s the difference between life and death That’s how you were trained to think, and you were trained well All sevens all the tiave hiun No, not a chance A choice It’s stupid to give theave theun Or die" Siun He raised his hands And that was that Except, what ifYou never thought about that, did you? The great what if You never considered the possibility Not in all these years The possibility that you rong You only pretended to deal with it Even when you first went to Jilly you were ent eyes and athletic body than you were in dealing with the truth of that longlot The truth that you ht, out of ht? Only it wasn’t out of mind, was it? And now

"Fuck"