Ceremony to the Dead

PBTD 01/24 It is the Team's habit, on a quarterly basis, to go to the Torn Asunder Bar, and throw a "celebration" in honor of deeds done and persons lost. Also, in this one, many persons from other teams who had fought with them. Katie reads the eulogy she had written shortly after the Battle at the Commune, and which is read for the first time at this celebration, and is included in every one after this.

“We are the chosen.

The infected,

battling our demons night and day.

Protecting the uninformed from reality.

We fight where the stupid meet the clueless to perform the asinine for our teammates every day.

We are cops, military, special forces, and SWAT,

medical techs, priests, and clergy.

We are the dimensional derelicts,

the legion, the host, the forgotten.

The feared.

The sheep can sleep at night because we don’t.

We fight for humanity—yours—and for our own.

We are the Damned, and death is our enemy,

our escape,

and our tribute.”