Tally turned away. Five minutes was suddenly too long to stand here, eyes burning, unable to cry.

Tally-When you looked around at everyone else how come you didn’t notice they were brain damaged? Az - We didn’t have much to compare our fellow citizens with. Only a few colleagues who seemed different from most people, more engaged, but that was hardly a surprise. History would indicate that the majority of people have always been sheep. Before the operation there were wars and mass hatred and clear cutting. Whatever these lesions make us, it isn’t a far cry from how humanity was in the rusty era. These days we’re just a bit easier to manage.

Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.

Surely no one would ever use such a weapon against a city." "There are no limits in war," Volger said, still staring out the window.

That Shay was in possesion of hand grenades was a comforting thought showed what kind of night this had become.