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He felt tired and worn down, both in body and mind, and he felt alone. He didn’t know what the hell he was doing here, or at all, and only wanted to get away. Get away from responsibility and competition, expectations and failure.
“If you ask a priest, ‘what is the sun?’,” said Amit, in a tone and cadence almost like an actor of sebu plays, “He might say, ‘It is God, shining in the heavens’. But if you ask a philosopher, he is likely to say, ‘I have no idea.’
“Laws don’t make men right, or good. Courage does, and compassion.
“There’s an old saying in my country,” he’d said with a grin, “that there are no rules in war. I’d always thought it silly. There are clearly no rules at all.”
What greater sin than to give false hope, he thought, and strip it away?
