A passionate speech drifted from a classroom. Rorschach and Andre walked over, one after the other. A young instructor was reading a special letter to a group of teenage boys.
"Your great Majesty, I implore you to rescind your denouncement of the formation of the National Guard. If you do not, you will lead the people to believe that the King is no longer the King of the Valois people, but the king of the Exiles and the enemy.
"Since the birth of the nation of Valois, countless people have made immense efforts and sacrifices for it, and they continue to do so. Whether these devoted souls acted in the name of God, for honor or family, for wealth or land, it is only in the struggle against a common enemy that they can unite as one oppressed people.
"Therefore, the fatherland is not some fabrication in an anthem, nor an imagined concept in a turn of phrase. It is the beauty nurtured by blood and terror, the homeland that bears the Valois people.
