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p align=center style='text-align:center'PONT SIZE="5"Executionp align=center style='text-align:center'bBy: One More SquallPONT SIZE="2"PONT SIZE="5"~~ span class=SpellESquaresoft/span

owns this shit, and span class=SpellELagwagon/span wrote the song, May 16,

good song, great span class=GramEalbum(span class=SpellELet's/span

talk about Feelings' get it, its their best)iNo more waiting on them as you rise inside new rooms span class=GramEi official you've gone you can live

for no one else iMan the guilt must be huge iAs there's no gain in failure you succeed at being mine/i span class=SpellESeifer/span paced around the small cell, waiting for

his last meal. It was all familiar to him, the bed, the metal walls, /span small toilet, there were the only things he was allowed

to have, but it was home. span class=GramEA home where he span class=SpellEdidn't/span

have to prove himself to anyone, nobody to pick on, nothing./span And he

hated every wretched moment of it. This last Saturday was to be his last, May

16, the end of the road, and what a trip it had been; the pain the suffering,

the hatred, the killing, it was hell. He could almost regard his captors as

angels, sent to free him from what he had wrought on himself, and from what the

people had wanted to do to him. He remembered every face in Balamb when they

had caught up with him, the murder in their eyes, the evil he had only ever

seen in himself and span class=SpellEUltimecia/span. It was horrific to

see, and he knew he was horrific for those people; he had cherished the fear he

inspired people while he was a knight, just loved, now he span class=SpellErealised/span,

it was nothing to love, and he hated himself for it. pNo walls could be crueler than the ones he was confined by, with nothing

outside to reflect on, he always had to turn to himself. He hated every /span of his fucking body. span class=GramESimple as

that./span If they had let him, he would gladly kill himself, but they /span even trust him enough for that, and he /span deserve that trust either. No hope...iYeah, old friend, see you thereiI will be proud from afariI can paint a picture in a moment of memories and there aren't many leftiI am extradited, uninvited iIt's just another Saturday/i pSquall and the others had flown in from the Garden to watch the execution,

not for some sick hatred of span class=SpellESeifer/span, but out of

respect for what he had been, and what he had meant to them before. Crowds were

milling about everywhere in span class=SpellEDeling/st1:place, the very spot where Squall

had charged the sorceress almost a year before, it was almost hard to return,

but they knew they had to. It was sad during the trial, watching the defeat in /span seeing it in their old span class=SpellEfreind's/span

eyes as the judge read the sentence. He had pleaded no contest, not even

bothering to make a big fuss. Just get it over with he had said

arrogantly, and the people had cheered his death, just as he had cheered the

death he had caused.pSquall was proud of what span class=SpellESeifer/span had done, he /span have done it any other way. If you made a mistake,

or many, in span class=SpellESeifer's/span case, you correct them. Often

there is more than one way, but in this case, span class=SpellESeifer/span

saw the only way to make up for his, or to try to make up for his, and all he

had said was get it over with. To give in to punishment was the least /span-action Squall could think of, but the trial bore span style='mso-spacerun:yes'  /span /span-reasoning at the same time.span class=SpellEQuistis/span stood silently at Squall side, and was

helpless to do anything but to watch the stage with a harrowing sadness, for

the love that she once felt for him, and for what she knew that he could have

been. The thought of that lonely man dying was almost span class=GramEto/span

much for his former teacher, and she couldnt stop the tears from

starting to roll slow down her soft cheeks.I wont wipe them off, let the world see that someone will miss

you. Were here last quiet words to the man she had once known so well.iTake a step to freedom iYou and her loathing this cruel world iTake a breath of shelter and exhale iTrust and allegiance iLiberate yourself from hell pA silence descended on the crowd as the prisoner was lead out of the car and

up the stairs. span class=SpellESeifer/span could feel the hundred thousand

stares on him, each span class=GramEeyes/span, boring into him, piercing

him like needles. It was complete agony, just walking up the stairs and across

the gallows to a solitary noose dangling from the ornate wooden structure. He

saw the new president of span class=SpellEGalbadia/span, some fat man he

had never heard of, and that moronic president of span class=SpellEEsthar/span,

standing together at a podium, quietly discussing span class=SpellEsometing/span

of great importance. He was almost an aside on that stage, though a much

scrutinized one. A burly span class=SpellEgalbadian/span soldier was

leading him towards the rope, and span class=SpellESeifer/span noticed it

was swaying gently in a breeze he span class=SpellEcouldn't/span feel, like

a lot of things. Fear, he span class=SpellEcouldn't/span feel fear, or

love. These things had become alien to him, and he hated that, he hated

everything, and he was going to die hating everything. Fuck! The noose was

inviting, and he slipped his head into, and his guard fastened it on tightly.

Off in the Distance he could hear the president reading off the crimes against

him, and his convictions, it was going to take a while. He hated the time,

every second! The sea of people, unknown in face and voice, rippled gently as

people jogged each other around to try and get a better view. span class=SpellESeifer/span thought of the people that had known him in

his life, the people who really knew him, and then looked at the swirling mass

of people that were to know him better in death. History would not look kindly

upon span class=SpellESeifer/span span class=SpellEAlmasy/span, he was

sure of that. The span class=GramEman/span who killed thousands, and was

later beaten by Squall span class=SpellELeonhart/span, the /span triumphant knight, fuck him. Fuck history. Fuck it

all. span class=SpellESeifer/span twisted his neck in his noose, and spoke,

with a careful tone, not too sad or not too convicted:Fuck absolutely everything, fuck every fucking thing. And that

is how his last words shall be remembered, and changed only in the censorship

of a history book. span class=GramEFitting.pThe presidents had finished their speeches, and now a band was playing some

dirge, a final fanfare, one for his death. He waited silently in those final

few moments, and he saw his life, it was good for a long time. He had a home at

Garden, he had span class=SpellEfreinds/span, people liked him, he thought

of his posse, of span class=SpellEFujin/span and span class=SpellERaijin/span,

hopefully span class=SpellEthey'll/span be happier now; and lastly he

thought of span class=SpellEQuistisiIt's just another SaturdayPONT SIZE="2"The shopping arcade was packed, people pushing through crowds

of other people pushing to get to the span class=GramEstores,/span it

seemed everyone had a bag of some sort. The city was just bustling, restaurants

were getting busy, and the buses were full. A group of soldiers had to be

dispatched to control the overflow of traffic, it was a nightmare, but, it was

a good day. pThe bars were full, as they always are on Saturdays, and span class=GramEthe

were/span as many parties as there always is, people were all out having fun.

It was getting late and eventually everyone had to go to bed, so they could

wake up and go about there normal business on Sunday, May 17/sup. /html