When food, water and aid finally arrived, the situation had exceeded everyone’s worst fears. Tens of thousands lay dead or dying, including virtually everyone over the age of sixty, who’d sacrificed their chances of survival that younger ones might live. Most who remained would never truly recover anyway.
It had been a miscalculation, of course; they’d left it too long. Their thirst for revenge had overwhelmed their broader view. The episode began with an atrocity attracting worldwide sympathy for the nation; in time, it became a stain on its history that lasted for decades.
And so, the cycle began again.
It had been a miscalculation, of course; they’d left it too long. Their thirst for revenge had overwhelmed their broader view. The episode began with an atrocity attracting worldwide sympathy for the nation; in time, it became a stain on its history that lasted for decades.
And so, the cycle began again.
