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“Isn’t that always the case,” the New Englander commented with a smile. “The second son, heir to nothing but the name, must work twice as hard to earn half as much.”
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“Jared ran for the cracked crate. He shot the closest soldier at point blank range and grabbed the bundle with his free hand. He raced ahead, pivoting on his foot as he placed his pistol directly into the chest of another stunned soldier and pulled the trigger, then he tossed the dynamite into the skyward-facing door of the derailed locomotive.
Seeing Catherine and Tiago nearby at the edge of the woods, he shouted, “Run!”
He didn’t look back as he sprinted away from the locomotive that fifteen seconds later exploded in a fireball illuminating the night sky, shredding the iron of the train engine and raining down an inferno of sparks and shrapnel.
“Now that was a diversion!” he called to Tiago, laughing.
“Next time,” the wind mage gasped, “let me know the plan and I will not exert myself as much.”
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Seeing Catherine and Tiago nearby at the edge of the woods, he shouted, “Run!”
He didn’t look back as he sprinted away from the locomotive that fifteen seconds later exploded in a fireball illuminating the night sky, shredding the iron of the train engine and raining down an inferno of sparks and shrapnel.
“Now that was a diversion!” he called to Tiago, laughing.
“Next time,” the wind mage gasped, “let me know the plan and I will not exert myself as much.”
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“The common folk live the consequences of political decisions,” Tiago added reflectively, “that’s the case everywhere.”
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“Right after the war, every opportunistic governor and anyone rich enough to afford his own private army wanted magic users. That would have destroyed what’s left of us. I am not going to put that power in the hands of privateers, capitalists, and any other potential usurper who would use it for his own ends, not the ends of the nation.”
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“True, but I’ve seen your cities. You defend them like castles. Wouldn’t it be the same here?”
“That’s the North. There we have more.”
“More what?” the Brazilian asked, curious.
“More everything,” Jared chuckled, “more men, more cities, more money, more paranoia.”
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“That’s the North. There we have more.”
“More what?” the Brazilian asked, curious.
“More everything,” Jared chuckled, “more men, more cities, more money, more paranoia.”
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“It was a running joke among the shipping industry—if the people of the nation had to choose between weapons or coffee, the Confederacy would end at the Canadian border.”
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“This is what they built to find it. What do you think they built to protect it?”
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“What’s California like?” Jared asked after another minute’s silence.
“Warm, very sunny,” Catherine replied. “They’ve got almost everything they need there. They can grow their own food, harvest their own lumber, and mine their own gold—that they sell to the Mexicans and Confederates. Plus the British in Victoria. Probably others.”
“Do they even know they’re technically still part of this country?”
“You won’t see any stars and stripes there, that’s certain. Each city is practically its own state.”
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“Warm, very sunny,” Catherine replied. “They’ve got almost everything they need there. They can grow their own food, harvest their own lumber, and mine their own gold—that they sell to the Mexicans and Confederates. Plus the British in Victoria. Probably others.”
“Do they even know they’re technically still part of this country?”
“You won’t see any stars and stripes there, that’s certain. Each city is practically its own state.”
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“This is what they built to find it. What do you think they built to protect it?” Jared asked, half-rhetorically.
“Let’s try not to find out,” Catherine said unnecessarily.”
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“Let’s try not to find out,” Catherine said unnecessarily.”
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“Mister Gilsom,” Munson continued, “you treat the patient. Gray, blue, didn’t matter. Mattered to some, but not to me. Way I figured it, someone in blue did my job on the other side, taking care of any of our boys that came his way. I wanted him to think the same way as I did”
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“Forrest spat, “Bah. We don’t need it. This world doesn’t need another nation of steel and soot. We showed that magic defeats metal. Grant learned that lesson from Vicksburg to Lexington and everywhere in between.”
That Johnston could not dispute—not that he would have even if he could. Most of the nation believed the War of Secession was won at Pickett’s Blaze in Pennsylvania. Few in the Confederate heartland from Virginia to Alabama truly appreciated how General Forrest had driven the Union forces back hundreds of miles from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to the banks of the Ohio River, leaving a string of charred corpses in his wake. But at least in the eyes of the Invisible Knights, Forrest was the true hero of the country.”
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That Johnston could not dispute—not that he would have even if he could. Most of the nation believed the War of Secession was won at Pickett’s Blaze in Pennsylvania. Few in the Confederate heartland from Virginia to Alabama truly appreciated how General Forrest had driven the Union forces back hundreds of miles from the Gulf of Mexico all the way to the banks of the Ohio River, leaving a string of charred corpses in his wake. But at least in the eyes of the Invisible Knights, Forrest was the true hero of the country.”
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“Doctor Munson to Jared Gilsom:
"We fought you because we didn’t want some ruler thinking he could tell us what we could do. We spent years, decades paying our share—the Erie Canal, miles of railroads all over the North. But down here, we barely got any of it. Taxed for three of every five slaves on top of our citizens, living the way we always have while we pay to make the North better. And then—and then, they decide that wasn’t enough. Now the government decides it can tell us how to spend our own money, how to live our own lives. Did you ever read the tenth amendment to your constitution? That used to matter. This idea that a president can decide how people live, how they act, what matters to them, how they can think? We fought the British just to avoid that, and then in less than a century we Americans did it to ourselves.”
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"We fought you because we didn’t want some ruler thinking he could tell us what we could do. We spent years, decades paying our share—the Erie Canal, miles of railroads all over the North. But down here, we barely got any of it. Taxed for three of every five slaves on top of our citizens, living the way we always have while we pay to make the North better. And then—and then, they decide that wasn’t enough. Now the government decides it can tell us how to spend our own money, how to live our own lives. Did you ever read the tenth amendment to your constitution? That used to matter. This idea that a president can decide how people live, how they act, what matters to them, how they can think? We fought the British just to avoid that, and then in less than a century we Americans did it to ourselves.”
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