078 - Flashback Theatre with Henry West

[major_west]

The first time I had to shoot a civilian-- hostile, actually. They lose civilian status the moment the Infection hits their system-- it was the first I'd actually been faced with the Infected. In my position, I only had to supervise. Direct. For the first days, I was perfectly isolated from what was really happening. But as our numbers

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[my_freeze_ray]

West, that isn't your fault. You had to do what you did and if you hadn't adapted it would have driven you insane or gotten you and your men killed.

You had to be that person West, it doesn't mean you still are.

[major_west]

But they did die. All of them died.

And I'm fairly certain that I'm not as sane as I was before it happened.

He's going to cheerfully enable you now

[my_freeze_ray]

Yeah, because of Jim, not because of you. You did the best you could for them, you survived the best you could and... and you still lost.

I don't know, I guess that's not very comforting. Still, if you had survived then how much worse could you have gotten? I'd never have known you.

[major_west]

I don't mind my own death so much. I've found things here I would never have back home.

But theirs I think about every night.

[my_freeze_ray]

Who? Your men? Or the infected?

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[major_west]

I think about the Infected as they were when they were alive. It's my men's deaths. Every decision I made as a leader was an absolute disaster.