"There's a tin line between Bravery and Insanity" Menelaus said towards Kirk.
He raised his hand as a sign to the guards to not fire their arrows.
"And I don't know in which of these two categories I belong now..." he silently whispered.
"Stand still you swine" the Oldonian said.
Menelaus grabbed his arm in an attempt to stop the bleeding.
Menelaus nodded at two guards and ordered them: "keep him here, hold him tight till he calmed down. I must get an answer from him. Call me when he's ready to talk. If it's taking days, feed him and take care of him. I need my answer."
Then Menelaus left the house, he left the city and ran into the hills. There he collapsed. He cried.
"Here I am, a grown man, I have had the courage to kill and the will to lead, but now I am crying over the dead of my family"
When he closed his eyes he saw images of Bae, Lacedaemon, his father and his uncles, Kirk, Achmed, Thadius and once again Lacedaemon.
The Menelaus of yesterday would have gathered all his armies to send them to Oldonia to raze everything that came into his path.
But the Menelaus of today just longed for one thing, an answer from the Oldonian.
Menelaus, young and strong, looked like an old man. In one day he had aged a thousand years.
He raised his hand as a sign to the guards to not fire their arrows.
"And I don't know in which of these two categories I belong now..." he silently whispered.
"Stand still you swine" the Oldonian said.
Menelaus grabbed his arm in an attempt to stop the bleeding.
Menelaus nodded at two guards and ordered them: "keep him here, hold him tight till he calmed down. I must get an answer from him. Call me when he's ready to talk. If it's taking days, feed him and take care of him. I need my answer."
Then Menelaus left the house, he left the city and ran into the hills. There he collapsed. He cried.
"Here I am, a grown man, I have had the courage to kill and the will to lead, but now I am crying over the dead of my family"
When he closed his eyes he saw images of Bae, Lacedaemon, his father and his uncles, Kirk, Achmed, Thadius and once again Lacedaemon.
The Menelaus of yesterday would have gathered all his armies to send them to Oldonia to raze everything that came into his path.
But the Menelaus of today just longed for one thing, an answer from the Oldonian.
Menelaus, young and strong, looked like an old man. In one day he had aged a thousand years.
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