The Loyal Spartan
The loyalists swarmed me, a relentless tide of steel and flesh that forced me back, their numbers a suffocating, overwhelming weight that was impossible to resist.
And I was faced with a terrible, soul-crushing choice.
The old Hypatos, the Spartan, the cold, calculating warrior who had sacrificed everything for duty, would have picked up the sword. He would have let her go, a necessary casualty in a war that was bigger than both, a painful but acceptable loss in the pursuit of a greater good. He would have hardened his heart, buried his pain, and continued the mission, his duty to House Ares, to Androkles, to the future of Olympus, a sacred, unbreakable oath that transcended all personal fee
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