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"Surrender?" Haken asks incredulously. "After all the work we've done on our defenses?" "We'll take down the soldiers that come in to march us off, but there will be more still out there. I'm sure the defenses will do their part." Haken grunts. "I don't like it. It's cowardly. Weak." "It's war," you say. "A war you started. And war doesn't care about honor, only victors." Haken nods curtly, his features businesslike, the rage seeping out of him, replaced with a glow of something that you've never seen from him before. You think it may be respect. "When did you grow up into this cold, calculating wolf?" "I don't know," you say honestly. You have no idea how to answer him. As far as you can tell, you're still the same as you always were, if a little wiser to the ways of the world around
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