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Reviews For: Wages of War

Cristykay 2008-07-28 ch 1,	abuseBeautifully written. Very poetic. Good job! Keep it up! Cristykay (LJ)
Karura Ou 2008-04-24 ch 1,	abuseA good story dealing with an interesting part of the story. We don't know much about the Minako part in the novels, even though I think it's one of the most important part. Kagetora's feelings are well described. He isn't used to tenderness and gentleness. I understand why he fell in love with Minako, the only one treating him as a human being, and not some sort of superleader.
EmptyWord 2008-04-16 ch 1,	abuseI want to fangirl ALL over this piece. This is amazing, amazing. My favorite of what you've written (but I'll probably have to go back and reread the others, now with my new-found knowledge and all XD). "There was no time for self-indulgent breast-beating, no time for melodramatic mea culpas...Useless self-flagellation." - A good look into the clash between emotions and practicality of a leader in war, constantly juggling his conscience and his responsibility. To me, that Kagetora thinks this much about it actually marks him as much more compassionate than the average person. It's too easy of a thing to have one's conscience chipped away out of necessity in a war, for a leader especially. You deliver the angst beautifully. "and he had to dig his fingernails into his palms to keep from throwing himself at her feet." - This rings so, so true for me. I could feel his urge to drop himself before her, to beg, to be sorry, to hurt as he deserved. Guilt is an incredibly powerful and painful force. "He felt her weariness drop into him like a stone tossed into a chasm, sending up faint echoes from the deep." - Oh, oh, what a description! Imaginative and vivid, and it works because something in him must really echo that weariness, that silent weeping and endurance. As he continues, "Then her endurance wouldn't have hit him with such painful familiarity." This is a very good character study. Her pain wouldn't hurt him so much if he didn't understand it so well, recognize it so well. He wanted to protect her after all, not drag her down into his world. "resentment rose in the back of his throat in an acid wave. She forgave him? Just like that? Suddenly her composure seemed more like distance than self-control, as if she was peering down at him from some great, free height." - Haha, poor Kagetora. He needs a pat on the head. Er, or maybe not, seeing as he already has such a massive inferiority complex. She is not actually any better or "higher" of a person than he is, but her ability to forgive and to let go is a big difference between them. Distance vs self-control is a very apt way to put it in Kagetora's eyes. For him, keeping the suffering to a bearable level is about self-control. For her, it's something else, and that something else suddenly makes her seem so much greater than he, unattainable, unreachable, because he can't understand it. This part was very well-written. There's guilt and shame, there's character introspection, there's cool imagery and analogy - I like, I like! Thank you for such an awesome piece. It makes my day. :D

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