Hailfire
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“Your plan is doomed to fail,” Capitano tells her. “By trying to save everyone, you will save no one. I suggest reconsidering your position before your nation burns to the ground, solnyshko.” That last word, spoken in an unfamiliar language, rolls smoothly off his tongue.
The soldiers behind him don't even try to stifle their disrespectful laughter.
Mavuika narrows her eyes. “Oh, are we name calling now, Captain?” She spits his title at him with haughty venom. “That's awfully mature. What does it mean? Witch? Bitch? Or are you feeling more creative than that today?”
Or, the five times Capitano addresses her in Snezhnayan, and the one time she understands what he's trying to say.
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- Part 1 of Hailfire
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Capitano gets a taste of a meal he's not soon to forget.
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- Part 2 of Hailfire
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“There is no great change without great sacrifice,” Capitano says slowly, his thoughts slipping into the past, as they often do. Not all change is positive, but unlike Khaenri'ah, Natlan will have the chance to heal from its wounds. “As leaders, it's our responsibility to choose the path our people will travel, but we cannot carry every soul to its end. No one possesses such strength. Not even a god.”
She looks up at him with uncharacteristic fragility in her bright eyes. “Did I pick the right path, then?”
He turns, deliberately, so that she'll know he's looking back. “Yes.”
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- Part 3 of Hailfire