Rix in the Tailor's Cellar
Rix turns to a recruit in a tailor's wine cellar and asks what he can give the rebellion, and the recruit answers with his life. The recruit remembers the early days of the revolution, when people were scared even to gather at night. Rix talked, of passion, of mistakes, of his love for the , and the whole cellar was mesmerized, so when he turned to the recruit and asked, there was only one answer to give.
Another rebel speaks of a wife he knows he will leave a widow and a daughter he could not look in the eye if he did nothing when the one chance came to throw off the yoke of the . The second rebel speaks from no named room, and the cellar is only the first man's; both are last heard alive, their pledges still unpaid.
One recruit remembers the cellar and another explains his duty to his daughter; their voices do not make them the same man.