wishes to make atonement, that he can find peace.
Is that not true?"
56 Gray Boar thought for a minute. "If the man SINCERELY wishes to
change," he answered, "to undo his past mistakes, and to find peace,
The Lords will do all in Their Power to help him. That is Their duty.
No one should suffer unnecessarily. That is why we help those in The
Darkness. None must be left to suffer alone, no matter how great the
evil they have done."
57 "Even, sir," the man stammered, "if that evil was to drop death on
children, burn them alive with fire bombs? To deliberately try to catch them in their schoolyard ...even if
the evil was THAT great, would your Lords try to help such a man as
that?
58 Even if he knew what he was doing was wrong, but obeyed his orders, saw their little faces looking up in his bomb
site and dropped his rain of death on them? Even if a man was THAT
evil, would your Lords forgive him? For that is what I did, that is
what I did."
59 The man began to weep, and his words were barely hearable. "My
commander told me not to think about it- they were the enemy ….lice,
and little lice grow up to be big lice. Just do my job and do it well.
Drop my bombs and run for home. So we hugged the mountains, came in under the
noise of another raid.
60 We were coming over the village before they could sound an alarm. I
found my target, lined up, and released my bombs. The tail gunner told
me I got a direct hit- I burned the maggots. But they weren't maggots,
they were babies, children. I swear I could hear their screams.
61 A moment later the fighter hit us. He took out one of our engines on
the first pass, and we were going down in flames before he even came
around again. I was on fire when I jumped, but the wind blew it out,
and my chute worked.
62 I lay on the ground for an hour before your people found me. I
thought they'd shoot me, or cut me