The following commorb log was recorded on the 12th of Rintra, the night before OPERATION: FINAL JUDGEMENT, however the file was only just recovered.
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This is it, isn't it? Despite all our planning, despite the back-ups...I can't help but feel like these will be my last words. Even as I'm recording this, it's like something foul hangs in the air. Or perhaps that's just the fumes from the Poison Wastes...
Tomorrow, this nightmare ends, I swear my life on it. You killed the remaining family I had, Richter, you...you'll burn for it. Nobody crosses a Sicarius like that and lives. Nobody.
...If these were my final words, what would I even say? If something goes wrong....Isaac, after all the trust you placed in me. Making me a partisan, for Saradomin's sake...surely I owe it to you to trust you with this? ...I wish I did, but that's just.....foolish, foolish damned optimism that'll get me nowhere. I just hope you forgive me for what me and Proteus have planned, and I pray that we need not let it come to that.
Were I feeling particularly drab, I'd write out a last will - but really, I've got barely anything left, and barely anyone who'd care. My rank and title are to be passed down to Majida, my possessions to the Temple Knights unless Proteus needs them for anything.
...Finally, Jo'. ...I trust this'll reach you, somehow, should things go wrong. You have more strength than you know, and once you burn the naivety away? You'll be a damned amazing woman able to change the face of Gilenor. That....that, I'm sure of. If I...don't make it back...go to the spot where I told you about my name. There's a tree near there. Clear away the grass and try to dig under the base of the tree. There's a small box there, take it. Remember that you can do so, so much good in this world.
Partisan Strife, signing off.
Thoughtcrime doesn't entail death. Thoughtcrime IS death.
