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I kneel aht All is silent but for the children as they perforenerations from Silenius to us

The voices of children drift through the air

“My son, hter, now that you bleed, you shall know no fear”

A dozen virgin girls with hair and eyes of ions Iron daggers are clutched in their hands

“No defeat Only victory”

Blood drips fros the blade across it

“Your cowardice seeps from you”

Ajax’s eyes are fixed on the floor His bleeding hand clutched in a fist Clustered about hirizzled Gold and Gray officers of the double-strong Tenth Expeditionary Legion, the Terran-born Iron Leopards

“Your rage burns bright”

I feel every treram of my armor But I do not feel the words

“Rise, children of Gold, warriors of Earth, and take with you your ancestors’ ht”

A chill spreads through ionnaires from the Grimmus lands of Africa and the Ast them has seen their home in over five years They do not knohen they will see Earth again But they know their path hoions

Kalindora ravBoots and articulates hiain”

In his storm armor, with its thunderhead shoulders, Ajax looks like Jupiter reborn with snowy teeth and inky skin He bathes in the roars of his men as can only a man who thinks himself entitled to worship, yet earned it anyway