Chapter 16: An Expected Betrayal
"Loyal, honourable, shameless, eccentric."
"These are some of the words which embody House Aurellion."
"No action is too shameful in the name of loyalty."
"Honourable conduct varies from perspective to perspective."
"How I rue the day we lost such a house."
"For their fires, I must now douse."
"By their hands, my empire is now in flames."
"And for it, I am to blame."
Emperor Flavius Crestier 2nd Emperor of the Chavarian Empire
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After 1 hour of waiting, the bitter-cold rain began to bite and seep through the shivering soldier’s skin as they waited in the cold rain for an attack which may not come. The welcome sound of a crude horn led to a wave of relief washing over them after being dismissed from their toil as they dragged their dripping and dreary bodies to their tents which stand in an orderly manner in the speedily constructed camp.
The Plurian human soldiers washed by the ice-cold rain slowly helped their more exhausted and weaker comrades back to camp as they weakly clung to the helping soldier’s shoulders as they tried to muster up their last reserves of strength and not just fall asleep instantly the constant alertness and attacks by the enemy combined with the laying and being out in the rain for the past hour exhausting them mentally.