p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"The moon hid her face behind the clouds. Horatio surveyed this sight from the battlements of Elsinore, hiding his own eyes behind a handkerchief. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"He looked back on the events of yesterday. Horatio had always believed Hamlet would die content and at peace, surrounded by loved ones and warm sheets, an old, happy king. But it was not to be. Instead, metal had clashed with metal, poison had played murderous tricks, and perpetrators of violence had their designs turned against them./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"The worst part was, he had been there to witness it all. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"In order to distract himself from death, Horatio thought of happy memories of life. Eventually, his thoughts led him to his time at university./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"It had been a wild ride. There was a never-ending stream of work to be done, it was difficult navigating an unfamiliar city, and homesickness sometimes attacked. But throughout all the stress of student life, there had been many bright patches in the dark cloud./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"Their favorite pastime had been watching theater. Horatio remembered that one autumn evening when they had watched a play, was it not called emJulius Caesar/em?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"There had been one line that struck him to the heart. Horatio looked up at the stars, trying to remember./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"A meteor shower was dancing across the heavens at this moment. Their tails shone brightly, all fiery splendor, looking like queens decked in all their regalia-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"emspan style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"When beggars die, there are no comets seen, the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"Remembering Calphurnia's line, Horatio forgot his contemplation of the night sky's beauties, and his thoughts were brought back to earth, to the death of his own prince. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"Hamlet had comforted him that night, laughingly reassuring Horatio that the lines in the play did not apply to him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"emspan style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"I'll hang around to annoy you for at least another century, and when I do die I'll come back to haunt you if you miss me that much, /span/emspan style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"the prince had said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"emspan style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"Oh, /span/emspan style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"Horatio began to weep, emif only that were true./em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"But some things were never meant to be./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"As he looked back at the sky to see the meteors, Horatio thought he could hear a ringing laugh, teasing and comforting at once, similar to the one he had heard that night so many months ago. Perhaps it was just the wind./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"He looked back on the events of yesterday. Horatio had always believed Hamlet would die content and at peace, surrounded by loved ones and warm sheets, an old, happy king. But it was not to be. Instead, metal had clashed with metal, poison had played murderous tricks, and perpetrators of violence had their designs turned against them./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"The worst part was, he had been there to witness it all. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"In order to distract himself from death, Horatio thought of happy memories of life. Eventually, his thoughts led him to his time at university./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"It had been a wild ride. There was a never-ending stream of work to be done, it was difficult navigating an unfamiliar city, and homesickness sometimes attacked. But throughout all the stress of student life, there had been many bright patches in the dark cloud./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"Their favorite pastime had been watching theater. Horatio remembered that one autumn evening when they had watched a play, was it not called emJulius Caesar/em?/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"There had been one line that struck him to the heart. Horatio looked up at the stars, trying to remember./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"A meteor shower was dancing across the heavens at this moment. Their tails shone brightly, all fiery splendor, looking like queens decked in all their regalia-/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"emspan style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"When beggars die, there are no comets seen, the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes. /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"Remembering Calphurnia's line, Horatio forgot his contemplation of the night sky's beauties, and his thoughts were brought back to earth, to the death of his own prince. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"Hamlet had comforted him that night, laughingly reassuring Horatio that the lines in the play did not apply to him. /span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"emspan style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"I'll hang around to annoy you for at least another century, and when I do die I'll come back to haunt you if you miss me that much, /span/emspan style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"the prince had said./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"emspan style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"Oh, /span/emspan style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"Horatio began to weep, emif only that were true./em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"But some things were never meant to be./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 15.45pt 0in; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: #2a2a2a; mso-fareast-language: EN-PH;"As he looked back at the sky to see the meteors, Horatio thought he could hear a ringing laugh, teasing and comforting at once, similar to the one he had heard that night so many months ago. Perhaps it was just the wind./span/p