[b][color=yellow]Itherae[/color][/b]

[i]This was a suicide run, the captain expected us to break them and I thought we could, I thought we FUCKING could. We went in, and everything was going according to plan for the first day, inch by inch we won the ground for Serona. We were jubilant, we felt like the very gods that helped to sculpt this planet. Then, then, Joan was torn into pieces by an artillery shot, TWO METERS AWAY FROM ME! I could see him, everywhere, the ringing in my ears blocked out his screams for a few moments and then it started. I saw him, he wasn't dead, I could see his innards spilling out, he called for his mama, trying to hold himself together before dying not even a minute later. All of this was a mistake, I don't know why I thought we could change the tide of this war, but I signed up for this, I have to stay and fight. Maybe in a few months I can go home and see my family again, hopefully in one piece and not in a damned casket either. Need to stay alive, for my boy and my wife.

For Jase and Laria.[/i]

-An excerpt from a soldier’s journal before the fall of Fetrograd.