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Mercy tugs me back, but discipline holds me rigid.

What will the Queen make of this?

This is weak. This is unwieldy. This is a defiance of every single mandate I have been taught; a corruption of the very bones of ancient IceWing lore, upon which I and so many substantiate our very existence.

There is reality, and there is here and now.

The two cannot coexist.

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