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"You have never tasted freedom, friend," Dienekes spoke, "or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel."

“Without a city who were we, what were we? A dislocation of the faculties seemed to unman all. No one could think. A numb shock possessed our hearts. Life had become like a play, a tragedy one had seen enacted on the stage—the fall of Ilium, the sack of Thebes. Only now it was real, performed by actors of flesh and blood, and those actors were ourselves.”

This is my fave writing style, let’s hope for plot