When life is a horror....Don't look like a ghost!
Do you have still the dye with which to turn your tunic red?___he madder? Yes, I do.___nough of it for a century?___nough for the entire cohort, if you want it.__e twitched a smile then; I was coming to know it, and to revel in the sight of it. I was his then, part of the XIIth, and he knew it.__ot the entire cohort yet, Demalion. The century will do. Henceforth we are the Bloody First. And I fancy we might have a mule__ tail on our standard. See to it on our return.
Rome: The Eagle of the Twelfth
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Do you have still the dye with which to turn your tunic red?___he madder? Yes, I do.___nough of it for a century?___nough for the entire cohort, if you want it.__e twitched a smile then; I was coming to know it, and to revel in the sight of it. I was his then, part of the XIIth, and he knew it.__ot the entire cohort yet, Demalion. The century will do. Henceforth we are the Bloody First. And I fancy we might have a mule__ tail on our standard. See to it on our return.
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