Crimson Flame

[Valeria_Benitez]

She nodded slowly as the man spoke quietly about what he learned about humans and for a moment, Valeria found herself feeling a rather great dismay as she realised that he was right. Even they, the corsairs, were not much better. They pirated, stole and took what they needed to survive. Sure, sirius did not care when they were stranded on crete way back but did that justify their actions?

Valeria shook her head slowly to herself as she thought about it. She began to feel bad about herself as she stood before a former enemy of the empire, despised and hunted while he still flew under coalition colors. And now she stood before that man and realised that he was likely a better person than most people in the corsair empire.

She did refocus however and continued to listen with genuine interest in what he had to say. As he finished, she eventually spoke.


"Gracias, senor, you are the living proof of what I once said to another corsair when speaking about the hessian war. In the past I was curious about the history of the empire and in the process came upon information about how this bloody, century long war began. And what is nowadays a mortal feud composed of irrational hate, had begun as a simple territorial dispute." Valeria paused briefly. "And what has it developed into. Perhaps, that too, is a statement about humanity and one that unfortunately does not proove your statements wrong at all.

I realised that the war would likely never end but I also realised that this was not something that could be called dispute or even war any longer. It was slaughter, senseless cruelty with absolutely no humanity. Neither side was better than the other. Instead of returning collected pilots in exchange both sides tortured and worked them to death .. and what for? Out of mere spite."

She paused again briefly.

"I wished there was someone else who realised what was happening... and seeing you here, hearing you say what you said, alone was worth taking the risk in helping you to safety here. Gracias, senor for sharing your thoughts with me, I am glad that such people still exist."

Valeria finished. She was speaking a little more slowly due to her strong accent.

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Valeria Benitez

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