Leonid: betrayed and broken

[Klatz]

The coffin was closed. What was inside of it could barely be identified as the remains of a man. But it was, a Man with a big "M", a man with a big heart. His soul was in Valhalla now. The body inside the coffin was once Leonid Davidovich Trotzky, an agent of the Coalition's FIS, propagandist of the Revolution and saboteur in Rheinland.

Leo stood silently and looked at the coffin slowly move on the conveyor of the furnace's crematorium. Over the past two days, his face turned gray, it showed inhuman fatigue and immeasurable grief for the loss. He lost his younger brother and it was a huge shock. Never in his life has he suffered such lonelyness. Never before he wanted death like now. First, he'd find the FIS mole, and personally, with his bare hands, would pull out his guts and strangle the rat with them, furiously kicking the corpse for as long as he could after that. Kick, kick, kick... He clenched his teeth in rage, and felt tears in his eyes for the first time in many years...

Leo held an urn with Leonid's ashes. The engines fell silent, which meant the transport was already at Wolfsburg, where the new "Aurora" awaited for its captain in full combat readiness, but this didn't make him any happier. Only his enemies' blood would make a difference. There is no way back. He will remain faithful to the Revolution until the end, but now his place is here, in Rheinland forever. He is no longer a resident of the Coalition. Contact is lost, the agent network destroyed. Moreover, Leonid is dead... Another, not the last, sacrifice for the Revolution.

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