How Six Men Got On In the World
By Vanilla Tiger
AN: No. 71 in the Grimms Title Challenge.
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The first returned to England to organise an army. If he cried, it was alone in his room with a bottle of scotch.
The second is not a man, although he may have once been one millennia ago.. Nevertheless he pauses briefly to regret the waste of his former employee before.
If the third thought of such things, he would wonder why he came back while she did not. But such thoughts would unsettle him, so he plays ignorance.
When despairing, the fourth thinks of her and knows what redemption means. For her, he resolves to continue.
The fifth never knew her. While he pities the dead, he cannot mourn.
The sixth eventually falls in love again, but can never bring himself to marry.
Life goes on. She does not.