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"You should take that card that I gave that young man Victor to a bank repository. It should help you get started. with your plans. However, do not think on this epiphany as a revelation of sorts, more a granting of liberation to experience what it is to be a human. It has four million British Pounds in its safe keeping. I've asked the bank head not to ask questions but deliver me a statement when you withdraw. But should you use these funds to attack- make no mistake, I will be forced to enact up on it as it will be an act of sedition. " Delacroix stated as Ana moved to grab the handle of the door. Watching her leave, he would then sigh heavily.

"Don't make me choose again." His thoughtful and ponderous gaze shifted to the portrait of his late beloved wife. " Let's not forget, it was you who incited me to be courageous and take risks deemed necessary in order to establish a more 'perfect' union. But what it has cost me, I can not fathom; I bend like the willow trees long, sinuous branches. As strong and flexible outwardly, but feeble and infirm. But alas, I can not allow my people to grow sick with me. I must save them from this virulence that is blood shed. Needless lives taken needlessly. But what am I to do? When those very people I seek salvation for, hunt me so tirelessly? Am I to turn a blind eye to their actions? Ere ages of kings, emperors and despots, did our culture become so entirely devoted to darkness not just because physical hindrances but because we have forsaken ourselves? Have we wholly given up that last ounce of humanity"