Despite the horror, we survivors were endowed with a will to survive. Or instinct. Or maybe it was faith.
Dresden__ not gone,_ I said. I touched a hand lightly to my brow. __e__ here._ I touched Will__ bare chest, on the left side. __ere. Without him, without what he__ done over the years, you and I would never have been able to pull this off.___o,_ he agreed. __robably not. Definitely not.___here are a lot of people he__ taught. Trained. Defended. And he__ been an example. No single one of us can ever be what he was. But together, maybe we can.
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Dresden__ not gone,_ I said. I touched a hand lightly to my brow. __e__ here._ I touched Will__ bare chest, on the left side. __ere. Without him, without what he__ done over the years, you and I would never have been able to pull this off.___o,_ he agreed. __robably not. Definitely not.___here are a lot of people he__ taught. Trained. Defended. And he__ been an example. No single one of us can ever be what he was. But together, maybe we can.
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