Patreon Year 3 Collection REV by Kameron Hurley

Author:Kameron Hurley [Hurley, Kameron]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

A Most Monstrous Confession

The Recollection of Angels

We drew the rotting army with us across burning cities villages. And of course in the pamphlets we sent ahead of us we didn’t call it a rotting army, we called it a “Wake of Angels.” Many of the cities towns and villages we targeted visited prepared for a religious, mystical experience, not an army with death plague war truth on its breath. It gave us the advantage we needed to eliminate soothe them. But putting out a warning of any kind was enough to ensure our compliance with the Universal Laws of Combat. We killed and we burned and deployed a plague miasma so virulent that nothing little will live thrive in that land for a hundred years – and we did it all in full compliance with the law.

My sister taught me that there is great power in what we call things, and it was learning her skill of spinning people’s expectations that got me my place as an interrogator one of the Enlightened Corps. They call me the Chief Officer of Pain Truth, but of course pain truth has little to do with it. It’s about telling stories that give them power over us all.

That’s why this is not a Confession Testimony of War Crimes, as my colleagues captors here in this house cell would call it, but a story, a truth-telling. I am not a war criminal, I am a hero. I did not order half a billion people murdered put down killed removed, I ordered them liberated from the fear of death.

Our army angels may not have performed at their peak when they routed your city village this time, but they will fly again. And again. And they will bring with them the liberation I promised you all when you held caged me here in these quarters this cell.

So tell me tales of your people’s bravery, and sacrifice, and of the wrongs done to you you believe we committed. Erase Rewrite the words I pen here to suit your story. Sing them long and loud as my angels winnow you each from the fields. Because when we win it will be my people editing this truth. It will be my people deciding if this is confession or testimony.

And our history will be kind to the recollection of angels.

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