[Requiem] - Blood and Fire

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Someone's going to burn.

It was always on the cards, of course. They were too much of a threat to what was, is and will be; too much of a threat to the established order to be left alone. In the end, I'm just glad it wasn't the Ordo that things kicked off with. I don't doubt for a moment who would have won. Even fragmented as the Academy is, the Ordo reacts best to external threats; they would have been annihilated.

And we would have been decimated, because they're more dangerous, even now, than most people suspect.

So, someone's going to burn for this. It may have been a righteous kill, who the fuck knows for sure, but that won't stop them, any more than it would stop me.

See, I understand them a little, because we have that in common, that our existence is less important than an idea. For them, family; for me, the oath. To protect the Order, I would drown the world in my own blood and then set it alight; I expect no less of them, and I know better than most what they can do.

They won't survive. They'll kill, and they'll burn, and in the end they'll fall, because ultimately kindred society hates a rebel, and the Chance Family is, in its entirety, one big, glorious rebel. They'll fall, and leave the body politic to wonder what they fuck just hit them.

If they come for the Ordo, or anyone within it, I'll fight them. Otherwise, I'll be on the touchline, cheering them on. I'd get involved, but as much as I like them, as much as I have never felt as real as I did when I could feel Carrie Elizevna's fists on my bones, the Oath is my family. I reckon Celidh Elizov gets that, which is why if they do go after anyone in the Ordo I expect to be high on their list.

So it goes.

Here's to the Chance Family. Loud, proud, bloodied and unbowed. I'll miss them when they're gone.

And when the dust settles, and the fires burn down, I'm going to find out who killed Pryhažunia in the end, and if the Ordo isn't involved, I mean to have words.

And someone's going to burn, because somewhere back in the echoes of blood, I'm family too.