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on_holy_groundFebruary 13, 1993
One of the things that I have long feared might happen has finally come to pass, and a good man died tonight because I could not leave well enough alone. I sent him into the lion’s den and expected that he would return to the fold with not a scratch to show that he had ever left at all.
How could I have fooled myself into believing that he would be safe from harm and that he would not be discovered, when I know full well how cunning and ruthless a man his quarry could be? How could I have let myself forget the lessons that I had once taught to those who served under me, about treachery from within?
I wonder now how many other good people might fall because of my own foolishness. How many more will die because of something that happened so long ago that even the histories cannot record it accurately?
Who will die now because I once taught a man the ways of war?
One of the things that I have long feared might happen has finally come to pass, and a good man died tonight because I could not leave well enough alone. I sent him into the lion’s den and expected that he would return to the fold with not a scratch to show that he had ever left at all.
How could I have fooled myself into believing that he would be safe from harm and that he would not be discovered, when I know full well how cunning and ruthless a man his quarry could be? How could I have let myself forget the lessons that I had once taught to those who served under me, about treachery from within?
I wonder now how many other good people might fall because of my own foolishness. How many more will die because of something that happened so long ago that even the histories cannot record it accurately?
Who will die now because I once taught a man the ways of war?
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Date: 2008-06-28 11:16 am (UTC)ooc
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