Savages

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Chon has read a lot of history.

The Romans used to send their legions out to the fringes of the empire to kill barbarians. That’s what they did for hundreds of years, but then they stopped doing it. Because they were too distracted, too busy fucking, drinking, gorging themselves. So busy squabbling over power they forgot who they were, forgot their culture, forgot to defend it.

The barbarians came in.

And it was over.

“So let’s pay them off,” he says to Ben now, “get O back, and get the fuck out of here.”

It’s over.