Ground Zero
The power has gone to your head in such a way that you've finally crossed that one line that was your downfall.
You order your troops to scour the Combine for the women known to be fertile and to bring them to Fort Bane all for the purpose for you to pursue some delusional notion of spawning a successor. The fact that tearing most of these women away from their established families doesn't make you anymore popular. Of course that doesn't bother you. The fact that you've basically bullied these women into submitting to you doesn't make you anymore popular. But again that doesn't bother you either.
What should bother you is that Marina finds out very quickly what you're doing. She's very hurt by this infidelity. She's stood by you from the very beginning, indeed she was the whole reason why you're in the position you are in the first place, and now you've treated that sacred bond and loyalty like it never meant anything to you.
Perhaps if you had addressed this to Marina, she MIGHT have even understood your desire and allowed you to proceed with your plan to a limited degree, she is a pragmatic sort after all. But you didn't even do that, instead you made her an embarrassment as you carryon with other women some of which are little more than common whores, in fact you never get ANY of them pregnant, which pretty much confirms that you WERE sterile all along.
Of course by this time you're so wrapped up in your new decadent activities that you forgot why you were doing it in the first place. This new reckless and careless behavior does not become you, and Marina has finally had enough of it. Part of her may still even love you, but she'll not be made a fool of and treated like this.
One night, while you're eating a meal, you take a large swig of water. It tastes funny at first, but you dismiss it since funny tasting water's not exactly too unusual. You just order another bottle of it to be brought to you then you start to feel dizzy.
You stand up only to collapse on your dining floor. One of your servants goes to help, but then Marina appears to tell him to stop.
"Ma Marina? What's going on?" you say as her figure begins to get blurry.
"A change. You always wondered who would take your place, and I've decided that I'm the only one worthy enough to do it. Don't worry, The Combine will live on, even if you will not. At least that was one thing you did right. I'm very sorry it had to end this way I take no pleasure in this but you can't betray your king maker without some sort of consequence. I'll try to remember the good times Goodbye."
And with your last breath, Marina kicks you in the face.
You order your troops to scour the Combine for the women known to be fertile and to bring them to Fort Bane all for the purpose for you to pursue some delusional notion of spawning a successor. The fact that tearing most of these women away from their established families doesn't make you anymore popular. Of course that doesn't bother you. The fact that you've basically bullied these women into submitting to you doesn't make you anymore popular. But again that doesn't bother you either.
What should bother you is that Marina finds out very quickly what you're doing. She's very hurt by this infidelity. She's stood by you from the very beginning, indeed she was the whole reason why you're in the position you are in the first place, and now you've treated that sacred bond and loyalty like it never meant anything to you.
Perhaps if you had addressed this to Marina, she MIGHT have even understood your desire and allowed you to proceed with your plan to a limited degree, she is a pragmatic sort after all. But you didn't even do that, instead you made her an embarrassment as you carryon with other women some of which are little more than common whores, in fact you never get ANY of them pregnant, which pretty much confirms that you WERE sterile all along.
Of course by this time you're so wrapped up in your new decadent activities that you forgot why you were doing it in the first place. This new reckless and careless behavior does not become you, and Marina has finally had enough of it. Part of her may still even love you, but she'll not be made a fool of and treated like this.
One night, while you're eating a meal, you take a large swig of water. It tastes funny at first, but you dismiss it since funny tasting water's not exactly too unusual. You just order another bottle of it to be brought to you then you start to feel dizzy.
You stand up only to collapse on your dining floor. One of your servants goes to help, but then Marina appears to tell him to stop.
"Ma Marina? What's going on?" you say as her figure begins to get blurry.
"A change. You always wondered who would take your place, and I've decided that I'm the only one worthy enough to do it. Don't worry, The Combine will live on, even if you will not. At least that was one thing you did right. I'm very sorry it had to end this way I take no pleasure in this but you can't betray your king maker without some sort of consequence. I'll try to remember the good times Goodbye."
And with your last breath, Marina kicks you in the face.
