I didn’t order the soldiers to slaughter unarmed civilians. Then again, I didn’t order them not to, and you know what soldiers are like, apt to get carried away, like a fox in a hen coop. These things happen in war, so they tell me. I wouldn’t know. Also they told me that it was necessary, in order to strike terror into the enemy, which had been my idea. Define enemy; seven years ago, they were our friends, they were us. But there; identities change, don’t they, and we aren’t necessarily the same people we were seven years ago, or seven weeks, even. Seven weeks or thereabouts (I lost track of
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Good writing This is a good example of character voice. Stronger voice than most books.
