[Forsaken] - An Awfully Big Adventure

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If we do not keep our oaths, what good are we? We hold our duty as sacred writ, but if we do not stand by the code and pledge that goes with it, what virtue is in our actions? If, when it suits us, we will act as we please and not in accordance with the Oath of the Moon, then what right do we have to say: "We are the Forsaken. We are the children of Luna and the inheritors of the mantle of Father Wolf, keepers of his Law and guardians of the border."

Imru nu fir Imru - The People do no Murder the People. Not shall not; do not. If we kill the People, we give up our right to the name of People.

Which means that we will lose, inevitably, because our enemies are willing to kill us. we lose, by Chicago rules, when battle means some of us in the ground and all of them going on; when we can not, with honour, be worse to them than a Nietzchean obstacle. We do not kill them, thus we make them stronger.

If we do not keep our oaths, what good are we?

If we die, what use are we?

How do you fight a foe who destroys you, even if you overcome them?

I am Arthur Mountbatten Decker, alpha of a dying pack, and I don't know how to save them.

So, screw it. If nothing else, I'm going to fuck up some Filipino quasi-vampires before I go, and I'm going to get your book back.