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This race--what a beautiful ths, except one Ee I know that Perhaps not now, perhaps not in four generations But it begins today, the end of their Golden Age Shatter the Bellona, weaken Gold Drive the civil war to Luna itself and destroy the Sovereign Then Ares will rise

I don’t want to be here I want to be home, with her, with my child who never was

But can’t be I feel the tide insideold wounds This is for you, I tell her For the world you should have lived in

And so I returndays of autumn …" I say, voice loud and bold, "… the Reds who houls to celebrate the dead claimed by the red soil, to honor their memories and subdue their spirits We Aureate took those end and ods No demons There is only man There is only this world Death comes for us all But hoe shout into the wind? Hoe be reloves and cut my palm very shallowly I clench my fist till the blood coats my skin, and then pressafter death claims you"

There’s the stomp of feet Just one

"Luna is the new Earth It rules us and ain, the weak hold back the strong After today, e take the Thousand Cities of Mars, our ranks will swell The Galilean Lords will swear for us The Governors of Saturn will bow to us Neptune will come with her ships and ill cut off the leech that is Octavia au Lune"

AndIt makes so much sense to them I don’t kno A tyrant for a tyrant How do they find inspiration from this? Men always have

Another stomp

"Every iven you" Like it was at the Institute and when I took the Pax The Jackal’s idea "Each lory, it will be spread across the HCs of every world If you shame yourself or your fanar, as though he were my headsman Lorn rolls his eyes at the dramatic flair "We will remember"

Stomp

"The cities are to be taken The Golds ill not bend, killed The lowColors protected We will not collapse the rounds We are to capture the bounty of Mars We do not want to take her corpse She is home to many of you, so harlory of the day is over--when you wipe the blood frohters, so they will rereatest battles since the Fall of Earth-- reiven to you by the Sovereign It was not given to you by a governor You took it like our ancestors took the worlds We are the Second Conquerors"