[Fire, fire, always fire, so much fire, but you look up at the small farmhouse and you feel nothing but pride. These were traitors - disgusting traitors, horrible people, that man had been a soldier so how dare he?]
[There is no regret, and as you look to the larger young man on your left and the young woman on your right, you nod. This is what you are supposed to do. This is how you keep your Empire safe.]
[The horse cart against the door has almost entirely burnt out, but the house still has too much flammable material to stop. You pause, and you listen, and you hear screaming -]
[But Mother and Father were traitors, weren't they? You had heard them, plotting disgusting revolution, and so they had to be killed.]
[But there is still screaming, and you can feel your certainty break - but they are traitors - and you know how long it takes a human to burn and it's -]
[No, by the time you get in there it'll be too late, and even if they were traitors they were -]
[You scream, agonized and furious and feeling all of the rage and despair in the world and you struggle to hold on, but you can feel your mind cracking, your mind everyone has praised you for, and you see the dark rushing in even as you see new flames sprng up around you and feel the heat on your skin and -]
Week 3 Saturday Night/Week 4 Sunday Morning [CW: Parental Murder]
[Fire, fire, always fire, so much fire, but you look up at the small farmhouse and you feel nothing but pride. These were traitors - disgusting traitors, horrible people, that man had been a soldier so how dare he?]
[There is no regret, and as you look to the larger young man on your left and the young woman on your right, you nod. This is what you are supposed to do. This is how you keep your Empire safe.]
[The horse cart against the door has almost entirely burnt out, but the house still has too much flammable material to stop. You pause, and you listen, and you hear screaming -]
[But Mother and Father were traitors, weren't they? You had heard them, plotting disgusting revolution, and so they had to be killed.]
[But there is still screaming, and you can feel your certainty break - but they are traitors - and you know how long it takes a human to burn and it's -]
[No, by the time you get in there it'll be too late, and even if they were traitors they were -]
[You scream, agonized and furious and feeling all of the rage and despair in the world and you struggle to hold on, but you can feel your mind cracking, your mind everyone has praised you for, and you see the dark rushing in even as you see new flames sprng up around you and feel the heat on your skin and -]
[And darkness.]