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MIKANDRA DIDN’T KNOW how she extracted herself from that conversation but it was certainly not with her pride intact. She felt thoroughly humiliated by a person to whom, a few days ago, she wouldn’t have given any time. Even in the hospital, she never thought about the lives of the men she treated. She cared little about the reasons why they were in the hospital other than that it was their own fault. She never considered the reasons why they signed up for Nemedor Satarin’s army other than that they were Nikala and that’s what Nikala did. She had never questioned any of it. She had, self-righteously, assumed that they couldn’t look after themselves because that was the task of the Endri. She’d been stupid, an arrogant rich kid who needed to be taught a big lesson.
Lesson taught.
Humi
