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- > So you stare at them.
- > And they just stare back.
- > None of you know what to say to break the silence.
- > So none of you say anything.
- > You just stare...
- > And in the silence you can't help but think.
- > Think of the times you'd seen so much worse than hiding.
- > You think of the time after The Last War had ended.
- > You remember the objection to the presence of your kind in cities.
- > You remember how the objection turned to open protest.
- > You remember how the protests got larger and larger.
- > And worst of all you remember when they got violent.
- > You where there with those sympathetic to the plight of your kind.
- > There where few.
- > But those that came to protest where many.
- > It hadn't been much different from other protests you had been too.
- > The men and women where loud and arrogant in there protests.
- > The sympathetic where zealous in your defense.
- > And you where there quietly listening to both sides.
- > Waiting for the right moment to speak up in your own defense.
- > Waiting for a moment that never seemed to come.
- > Well...
- > It did come eventually...
- > Just not in the way you had in mind.
- > You don't know who struck first.
- > What you did know was that what started as a vocal but otherwise peaceful protest...
- > Even if it was a hateful and evil idea at its core.
- > Had suddenly erupted into a riot.
- > Those sympathetic to your kind had no weapons.
- > Not even simple things.
- > You and those of your kind didn't either.
- > Why would you?
- > Your war was over, you just wanted to find a home, and something meaningful to occupy your time.
- > But those who came to protest...
- > They had come with one intention.
- > Getting rid of your kind.
- > And if they couldn't do it with there voices...
- > They would do it with weapons...
- > So try with weapons they did.
- > But they where civilians.
- > Men and women who had, even during the war, lived there lives in comfort in the cities.
- > You and yours...
- > Constructs built with one purpose in mind.
- > War...
- > No Warforged is ever truly unarmed.
- > Your fists are made of metal and wood.
- > Your body is the same, made to take a hit.
- > Your instincts and sense are honed for battle.
- > But you where outnumbered.
- > There may have been fifty of your kind and perhaps twice that many sympathetic to your kind.
- > But the rioters...
- > There where hundreds...
- > Mostly armed.
- > All furious.
- > When the fighting erupted it fell to your fifty to defend not just themselves but those who stood by you.
- > Those who could had armed themselves with make-shift weapons, boards, planks, bricks, stones, anything they could use really.
- > Those who couldn't had only there fists.
- > When the rioters had surged everything had seemed to slow.
- > The first man to attack you had been wielding a club.
- > You remember his swing.
- > Slow from your right.
- > You had wrenched the weapon from his hand and struck him with a left hook.
- > The force behind your punch produced the sound of cracking bones, and blood had shoot from his mouth splattering on you.
- > At the time you hadn't cared.
- > The next man hadn't even been attacking you.
- > He had slipped past in the second it took you to drop the first and struck an unarmed man behind you.
- > The man was on the ground a gash across his head from the blow he'd taken.
- > His assailant had his arm raised, a club in hand ready to strike another blow.
- > You had something to say about that.
- > A punch to the shoulder had literally spun him to face you.
- > A slam to the face had killed him instantly.
- > And yet you still hadn't cared.
- > What you had cared about was the wounded man on the ground.
- > He had not come for a fight...
- > He had come to defend you, and your kind, with words and ideas.
- > As it should have been...
- > Instead he was on the ground bleeding.
- > You remember picking him up, and carrying him away from the battle...
- > That's what it had become...
- > Not a fight. Not a riot...
- > A battle.
- > So you carried him away from it.
- > You had simply bull-rushed your way through those that tried to stop you.
- > You plowed your way through those that stood to stop you.
- > They had simply bounced off of you as you ran.
- > When you had finally cleared them, your focus went to simply getting this man somewhere out of the fray.
- > The place you chose was nothing more then a small alley.
- > As you set the man down he just looks at you.
- > A nod, which you assume to be of thanks is all he can muster.
- > You simply nodded back.
- > Satisfied that you had secured this mans safety, you turn back out of the ally.
- > Even from here you can see where the protest had been.
- > The rioters had been routed and had already begun to run now.
- > A few of your kind where on the ground, you assume inert of dead.
- > But the amount of men and woman from both sides...
- > That was when you felt something.
- > Rage.
- > Hatred.
- > Disgust.
- > You had come here to allow men to speak there minds, even if you didn't, COULDN'T, agree with them.
- > And they had done this...
- > And all you could do was look down at your hands.
- > Your hands and your body, caked in the blood of those who had tried to stop you.
- > To kill you and an innocent man who had come to your defense.
- > As quickly as it came your rage was gone, replaced in an instant by sorrow.
- > As you stared down at your hands, all you could do was ask...
- "Why..?"
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