[ And now the other thing, which has more or less curdled bitterly since her anger (this anger, anyway, she has more where it came from) has left her. And so, a halting attempt to explain; ]
I share a battle with de Chevin, you know. After the fires burned out in the stone walls of Halamshiral, and we had lost to a fight that became butchery, it was his voice that lifted: hail, Empress Celene. All of us remember that day, all who survived. I couldn't--
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[ And now the other thing, which has more or less curdled bitterly since her anger (this anger, anyway, she has more where it came from) has left her. And so, a halting attempt to explain; ]
I share a battle with de Chevin, you know. After the fires burned out in the stone walls of Halamshiral, and we had lost to a fight that became butchery, it was his voice that lifted: hail, Empress Celene. All of us remember that day, all who survived. I couldn't--
[ She stops. ]
It is good, to not be associated.