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Elizabeth Moon - Surrender None




SURRENDER NONE
Elizabeth Moon
the legacy of gird 01



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Contents
Prologue
Part I
|1|2|3|4|5|6|7|
Part II
|8|9|10|11|12|13|14|15|16|17|18|
Part III
|19|20|21|22|23|24|25|26|27|28|29|30|
Part IV
|31|32




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Elizabeth Moon - Surrender None



WHY WE FIGHT
“You lost children?” Others shushed that voice, someone in a leather
cloak, but Gird answered it, counting them on his fingers.
“My first two sons died of fever; the lord refused us herb-right in the
wood. My wife lost two babes young, one from hunger and one from
fever. My eldest daughter they raped; killed her husband. The babe
died unborn. My youngest son they struck down; he lives. Another
daughter they struck down, breaking her arm; I know not if she lives
or dies. And my brother’s children, that I’d taken in: two of them
dead, by the lords’ greed. And that’s children. I lost friends, my
parents, my brother.
“You ask yourselves: if they can take one child, will they stop there?
Will all your submission, all your obedience, get you peace and
enough food? Has it ever worked? You can sit here and let them take