Dancing On The Rim

Excerpt from : Dancing on the Rim of the Maelstrom: The Memoir of Kiera S.D.

May 2523, Aesir

...raucous party of life, celebration and relief as well as a giddy anticipation of future Rim victories and final triumphant independence .

I couldn't join in tho.' For although Death was my friend and I personally had dealt it more than I wanted to in my short life so far, I couldn't find joy in war. Wholesale slaughter was something completely different than looking a man in the eye and watching him die by your hand. Just was and it bothered me in ways I would later understand better when I could look back on it.

They'd argue that mass death was better than mass enslavement by the likes of Veridian and Blue Sun. But you can always dream as a slave. Ain't no dreaming dead.

So I stood in the shadows, watched my friends, and drank a toast to the last of innocence for a long while...

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