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BLOOD MUST FLOW AND YOU MUST DIExxxHer name was Elena Petrović, and just like Her Majesty, she was born in Montenegro, the ancient Illyria, and she had married an Italian man who wore a uniform: but the similarities ended there. The Captain was a man of average height, portly, optimistic, and his character was entirely different from Victor Emmanuel, who sat on the throne so diffidently, as if he didn’t actually wield supreme authority, but rather feared it. Captain Andolfato on the other hand liked the world he lived in, and everything seemed beautiful and well-disposed towards him: nature, the State, the Fascist party, the colony, the Army. If one put a problem before him, he would try to minimise its importance, to dismiss it, and this appeared to free him from the need to try and re
