The idea haunts me. But I also know that if I had, they would have arrested and tortured him sooner or later. And he would have betrayed me. The others all betrayed me in the end. They had to. His death saved me from that sorrow, at least. And in a way, it saved him.” “Yes,” Ella said. “You wrote that in your book—that it is better to die in action. Because no one resists, in the end. Once the state gets hold of us, they take everything. ‘We will betray our friends, and more—we will give up people who were never even there. We will do anything to make the torture stop. We think we won’t, but
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