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 Vhoul, 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 Bronze Legion. 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.