“I’m not sure all of that matters. They’re the ones that started this war, sacking our towns and claiming the islands off our shores. They managed to push this far without us being able to stop them. No, I don’t know if God wants us to be at war or not, but there’s not an alternative.”
There was a shadow in Eladrine’s eye that wavered between pity and determination. Elias had seen the look before when he had asked his question of other men. Most men were not very pious in Orailse, not after they had spent long enough feeling the blast of explosives through the mud, living with the temptations of the bars and brothels in the city. Those men did not come to the war because it was what their god had said would be good. They came for their friends that had also joined, to get revenge for thos
