Hope rises, She always does, did we fail to notice this in all the stories they’ve tried to suppress? Hope rises, and she puts on her same unfashionable threadbare cloak and, penniless, she flings herself against the cold, polished, protective chain mail of the very powerful the very rich—chain mail that mimics suspiciously silver coins and lizard scales— and all she has to fight with is the reality of what was done to her; to her country; her people; her children; her home. All she has as armor is what she has learned must never be done. Not in the name of War and especially never in the name
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