![]() But some said it was because he had forsaken his spear. ![]() Arab Maina died on the field of action in the service of the King. It was so simple and so unimportant.īut of course it meant something to Kibii and me, because the tall young man was Kibii's father and my most special friend. He was shot and killed by the other man, who also believed in duty, and he was buried where he fell. Intimate yet universal, passionate yet precise, their brilliant alchemy of realism and magic made Graves poems some of the finest of the last century. He took the gun and held it the way they had told him to hold it, and walked where they told him to walk, smiling a little and looking for another man to fight. Without Affinity, Equipment, and Breakthrough bonuses. Day and night compared to the 1.5k for each crystal from before. He thought war was made of spears and shields and courage, and he brought them all.īut they gave him a gun, so he left the spear and the shield behind him and took the courage, and went where they sent him because they said this was his duty and he believed in duty. Yeah I've used a BT2 lvl 80 buffed Beryl and with 15 tiles connected she now deals more than 8k damage with each crystal, which essentially means around 25k more damage with her chain combo on a 4 tile non-moving bosses (because radial shape only hits 3). The young man tied his shuka on his shoulder one day and took his shield and his spear and went to war. It was an ordinary story, but Kibii and I, who knew him well, thought there was no story like it, or one as sad, and we think so now. It was about how the war progressed in German East Africa and about a tall young man who was killed in it. Once the symbols were drawn it was believed that they had their own power. It was not a story that meant much as stories went in those days. ![]() It seemed a laborious method of retribution, but that was the way it was being done.Ī messenger came to the farm with a story to tell. A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili or in English, and, because of this shooting, whole countries were at war. ![]()
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