If you're looking for the grisly details, I won't give them.
[Even just thinking back to it makes his blood boil. Dimitri takes a deep breath, crossing his arms tightly as if that will keep the anger safely inside him.]
My father wanted to make peace. Apparently, someone out there takes exception to that. This war may not be what he would have wanted, but he would not have wanted our people to be conquered, either. I cannot allow her to force her will on the world any longer.
[After a brief pause, he looks away.]
...pretty words for a man that nearly drove his army into the ground chasing after the empire. Even now, all I can think about is crushing her throat with my bare hands. But if I don't want their deaths to be in vain, then...
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[Even just thinking back to it makes his blood boil. Dimitri takes a deep breath, crossing his arms tightly as if that will keep the anger safely inside him.]
My father wanted to make peace. Apparently, someone out there takes exception to that. This war may not be what he would have wanted, but he would not have wanted our people to be conquered, either. I cannot allow her to force her will on the world any longer.
[After a brief pause, he looks away.]
...pretty words for a man that nearly drove his army into the ground chasing after the empire. Even now, all I can think about is crushing her throat with my bare hands. But if I don't want their deaths to be in vain, then...