"I... don't agree," he said, for the first time hesitant. He sometimes suspected what she said was true, but he never allowed himself to believe it -- because if she was right, then she was right about everything, most saliently about how nothing had any point because it would never improve.
"On the battlefields of Azeroth, we extended trust instantly and wholeheartedly. That may sound insane, but we had no choice -- if we didn't, if we held back or played it safe, the onslaught would overwhelm us. Our foes are always unified, it seems. The Legion. The Scourge. The mogu. The damn murlocs, even. They all united without reservation to stand against us."
He lifted a fist, clenched it tight as he looked down on it. "And we paid for it. Kael'thas Sunstrider. Garrosh Hellscream. Other figures here and there that took advantage of our trust and abused it. But we survived every challenge they threw at us because we HAD that trust, and we united.
"That --" Mar swept his hand out, over the circle and those inside it and out. "--is my vision for the Redsworn. That we trust each other implicitly. That we believe in ourselves above everything."
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"On the battlefields of Azeroth, we extended trust instantly and wholeheartedly. That may sound insane, but we had no choice -- if we didn't, if we held back or played it safe, the onslaught would overwhelm us. Our foes are always unified, it seems. The Legion. The Scourge. The mogu. The damn murlocs, even. They all united without reservation to stand against us."
He lifted a fist, clenched it tight as he looked down on it. "And we paid for it. Kael'thas Sunstrider. Garrosh Hellscream. Other figures here and there that took advantage of our trust and abused it. But we survived every challenge they threw at us because we HAD that trust, and we united.
"That --" Mar swept his hand out, over the circle and those inside it and out. "--is my vision for the Redsworn. That we trust each other implicitly. That we believe in ourselves above everything."