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// Infuse 
// Story: Book 1 - The Behemoth came to Canterlot 
// by Equimorto 
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"What would you do if you knew for sure we weren't going to make it here?"
"Run away. Run as far away from Equestria as I can manage. Grab a few things I want with me along the way, and then keep going. There's a town across the desert, I've heard, I'd go there. I wouldn't stop there though. Maybe I'd go towards Seaquestria. I wouldn't stop there either, too close. I don't know for sure what's farther out than that, but I'd find out. Find the place farthest away from Equestria I can find and hope they never get there while I'm alive. And I'd hope an army would move slower than a single pony on the run."
"You'd abandon your country just because of one battle? You wouldn't help with the rest of the war?"
"There won't be a war. If we don't win here, it'll be either subjugation or a slaughter. This is not just a battle and you know it. All our alicorns are here. The Elements are here. Everything we have, we have it here, and if Princess Twilight is to be believed this is the least the enemy can put out. Considering she's out there risking her life, I'd trust her words. We won't have a better chance, and if we lose here we won't have anything left to even take a second chance. There is no war. Only this battle. That's what it's like when alicorns get involved."
"You don't believe in the possibility of a resistance? You wouldn't try to fight back in any way?"
"I don't doubt some would. But no resistance will lead to victory in those circumstances. No pony has a chance to defeat Nightmare Moon if our alicorns combined couldn't. She may not be able to fully crush an organised resistance, but we'd never win. We'd be just an annoying nest of bugs she can't fully get rid of, but we'd never have hope to retake the country. A nuisance and nothing else. And for what? She'd just wait us out. She would outlast us all, and our children, and their children. The resistance would lose members faster than it could ever manage to gain new ones. Eventually she would crush the last of us. It's a useless struggle we could only prolong by a few generations. That's how it is. This is a battle between alicorns, we're just in the way."
"You don't believe in doing the right thing for the sake of it?"
"I believe saving as many lives as possible would count as doing the right thing, and given the circumstances that amounts to my own and those of anyone else who might decide to follow me. There's no point in dying a hero if there's no revolution for you to inspire, no one to admire your sacrifice for more than a few generations. I'd rather live on the run than die a useless death."
"But you wouldn't submit."
"Never. I'm not giving up freedom more than I have to. Even if it's just on a theoretical level. Even if I could be more free a subject of hers than a fugitive. It's about principles, there. But I'm not dying for it, there's no freedom in that. At least I'd get to see the world."