Chapter 111
Of every one hundred men, ten shouldn't even be there,
eighty are nothing but targets, nine are real fighters...
We are lucky to have them, they make the battle...
AH but ONE, one of them is a Warrior...
he will bring the others back."
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—Heraclitus, c. 500 B.C.
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MIKHAIL
General Hudhafah is enormous, even for a lizard, battle-scarred from centuries of fighting, with broad shoulders, a burly chest, a deep burgundy dewlap, and a deadly dorsal ridge which runs from his head all the way down to his tail. In terms of valor, he would be Abaddon's contemporary. The two, in fact, have tangled many times. These are the soldiers Angelics have nightmares about, the high-ranking lizards who moved up the ranks due to a combination of good breeding, loyalty to Shay'tan, verisimili
