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Katrina took her time getting back to the Dragoon cordon, drinking in the cheers and applause. By the time she got back there were several clerics waiting to tend to her wounds. Thomas spoke briefly to his son before going to his wife's side to congratulate her.
Simon stepped up to the Lancelot cordon unarmed and bare handed. bowing deeply.
"Send who you will knights. They will return bloodied and weaponless. I do so not in anger, nor in malice, but in duty."
Then, crossing the field to the centre of the arena he sits crosslegged, head bowed in meditation.
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"Life is possible only with illusions. And so, the question for the science of mental health must become an absolutely new and revolutionary one, yet one that reflects the essence of the human condition: On what level of illusion does one live?"
-- Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death
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