Better avoid the risk.
“It’s going to sink to the bottom”, he considered in a louder voice, as if he could push his fear away by those words. He was able to do it, partially. But what really pushed the horror away, was being aware that he would get some merit as well, without any witness to disagree. Because he knew that the world could move just in one direction and history was made by winners, not by losers.
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Johnny watched the corsairs’ slaughter with a total indifference, as if his body was miles and miles away from there. Everything was moving very slowly, faded frames of thousands of lives getting to their end.
Included his own.
Of course, as he was conscious he couldn’t survive. Guys like him never could. If he had been able to survive till then, it was thanks to someone els
