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"What did the world do to you?" she asked him. "That you can't even smile without looking sad?"
How could he tell her that he didn't even remember?
He's never been anything to anyone. She's a stray dog someone took in and left for dead.
They're nothing to them.
Just cogs in that machine of a system that keeps turning. Pawns on a giant chess board, that's bigger than their two countries, soldiers in a never-ending game that has been going on, longer than the span of their lives. The players change, but the betrayal, the pain and the greed remains all the same. And in that game, they're pieces of scrap metal that can be melted and molded and broken, to serve any function, at any price, no matter how despicable, no matter how in-human. They can not tell you how their lips have been sewn shut by years of injustice. Fight the system, and you die. Talk, and you die. Think, and you die.
But, the system has to collapse sometime. It is inevitable. The facade must drop.
The question is...
What, then, will rise from the abyss of the Empire?