Then fight for an end to this war to come sooner rather than later.
[That solemnity's a hard-won thing, if you can count it as something to win at all, with everything he's had to lose in the process. He picks up a glass, waves the bartender over once more for some ale, and takes a sip.]
I know the battles are easy, I've fought and won more than enough of those even before coming here. War is--complicated.
[He gets it, is the thing. Snowball fights, playing at knights and monsters in the yard, fights with wooden swords, even fights with live steel--those are easy, and come to an end soon enough, though the last one's end is more lethal for one or even both. A war--well. It ends too, but it's longer and more complicated, and sometimes you start to lose sight of the goals you had when you started out.]
You could win all the battles, but you could still lose the war with one misstep. [Something that he, regrettably, has more than enough experience in.]
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[That solemnity's a hard-won thing, if you can count it as something to win at all, with everything he's had to lose in the process. He picks up a glass, waves the bartender over once more for some ale, and takes a sip.]
I know the battles are easy, I've fought and won more than enough of those even before coming here. War is--complicated.
[He gets it, is the thing. Snowball fights, playing at knights and monsters in the yard, fights with wooden swords, even fights with live steel--those are easy, and come to an end soon enough, though the last one's end is more lethal for one or even both. A war--well. It ends too, but it's longer and more complicated, and sometimes you start to lose sight of the goals you had when you started out.]
You could win all the battles, but you could still lose the war with one misstep. [Something that he, regrettably, has more than enough experience in.]