“We've known each other since we were just wee little things, and-- every skirmish, every battle, I'd go find him after the smoke cleared. In the infirmary, or by the tents, or at the mess hall... Or he'd find me. It's a routine, see. If you don't remember who you're fighting for... What's the point? What would we have now that we're free of Garlemald, if we didn't remember whose freedom it really is? The smiling comes after it's all done. We don't often fight near each other-- he's infantry, and I'm not-- and.. It's not ever a fun thing, to be in a war. That's why it's so important to take the joy where you can, after. It's easy to get into it, to take too much joy in blood shed, or to romanticize all the death out of it. And it's hard to both take it seriously, and to be okay. The routine helps, yeah?"
(The Rosehouse, Sea of Clouds)
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