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The Rescue
When Cam, Holger and Greta came into the Homo Erectus' lair with the natives a great battle broke out. An ordinarily savage battle that would have lasted much longer ended up being a quick one thanks to Cam's skills with a gun.
The Homo Erectus suffered many casualties. In fact, Cam was fully intent on wiping them from the face of the earth. He would have too had Barrage not stepped in.
"Sir Camillio, they must be preserved! What you are about to do is the work of a savage!"
"They are the savages here! Not me!" objected Cam. "All savages must die!"
"What they are doing is out of a religious motive." Stated Barrage. "I have seen them dance, raising their hands to the sun after they have thrown someone into the fire. Your motive is one of pure blood lust. You are savage not them. Would you kill yourself because you are a savage?"
Cam paused and lowered his gun. Barrage had spoken the truth. Just because their ways were not his ways did that mean they were more or less than him? The only people in all of history that did not qualify as savages were the Ancient Egyptians, the Scythians, the Gaels, the Picts, the Britons, the Gauls, the Norsemen, the Franks, the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons, the people of Switzerland, the people of Canada! The descendants on those ancient peoples were the most civilized in all of the world, all the world tried to follow their example and to be the pillars of virtue they were but alas they could not be for those were people immune to sin and all who were not those people were not immune to sin.
Or at least, that was what Cam believed. Cam was a citizen of Canada and thus civilized but he had been born in Cuba and thus in his mind a savage. But if he was born in savage Cuba and a citizen of civilized Canada then which was he? Was he the savage he had been born or had he become a civilized person? Was he either or could he have possibly been both? Or was it possible for him to be both and neither?
Cam was a history buff and had an unfortunate tendency to put those he admired on a pedestal. Cam had only fully realized one of his own flaws.
"We should take them captive." Stated Cam. "Take them captive is what we shall do."
