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<p>To be loved.</p>
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<p>To be loved.</p>
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<p><font size=5>Act One: These Quiet Heroes</font></p>
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<p>Say the pigs: "Our journeyman -a gentleman! a protector!- he serves Commander well. A tough old dog, married to the Legion. He's never known love! An unspoiled warrior!"</p>
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<p>But a pig is not a window into the soul. The journeyman, faithful soldier though he was, was gnawed at by tickles of a love he'd never been allowed to feel.</p>
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<p>Across the river, behind enemy standards, a young boy-thrall was also tickled. "What lay yonder, beyond the river?" thought he, "Perhaps a soul as lonely as me?"</p>
<p>Aha, we shall have to see, young thrall!</p>
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<p><font size=5>Act Two: A March to GLORY</font></p>
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<p>To war good brothers!</p>
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<p>Why, walk this way, sir! Towards the war!<BR><BR>TO WAR!</p>
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<p>...where we will see fantastic and horrible sites. Where we will be monsters, kings or corpses by sundown.</p>
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<p>"His brains spat out onto my shoulder. I remember turning towards him and uttering some absurd words of comfort. My lover's head was half gone -not crushed nor singed nor mangled, but gone. Like that! In one fell instant. There was a dull numbness, and then I was on the sand with him, cradling the spongy wreck of his head, screaming 'My god, I loved you. I loved you, Francis. I loved you like no man has loved another.' The arrows sailed past all the while, but not one had the pity to strike me from my agony."</p>
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<p>As the war took its bloody course, the journeyman grew troubled. "Who is this boy-thrall that I glimpse across the river? He cannot be more than a child, and I cannot be less than in love with him." He debated there, at the river, betwixt two armies and his God, if he should not cross over and be with thrall.<BR><BR> He debated until fate grew impatient and decided for him!</p>
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<p><font size=5>Act Three: The Death of Innocence</font></p>
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<p>O! Boy, you watched the clouds while they hacked away your back. O! Boy, my distant love...</p>
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<p>...trod around your corpse as though it were tar to stain their shoes...</p>
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<p>"He is but a blood spot on the horizon. A red blur in the sand. Accursed fate! That the first love I knew should be stretched across a battlefield... cut apart at the instant of its conception."</p>
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<p>YAY! YAY! YAY!</p>
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<p>YAY!</P>
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Games 2 and 3 also had romantic storylines, but the best romance story of all is the one you write for yourself. So go, dear reader, and discover the "boy-thrall" who will capture the journeyman inside your heart!!!
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Sincerely,<BR><BR>
Tribunal
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(Dedicated to the memory of "Ymir" Setzer)