Prompt: "People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest." – Hermann Hesse

I sense terror the instant I arrive in camp. I smell it on them, starting with that imbecile Klink. It's sweat mingled with steam, rising in the air. The smell of fear is a cliché in fiction, but it's real. I'm shrewd about getting results, and I know fear's power.

There is one man – that man! – who is unafraid, and his attitude is contagious to the men around him. They despise me as evil. They don't tremble.

But like them, I am a patriot. A mother's son, a loved one. Like them, I simply have the courage of my convictions.