Humanity calls it justice.

But I have learned that what the laws of men give you is never yours to take; that the warrant handed you by men is not for you to execute.
I--have--learned--many things in the solitary years, Berkley.

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But this--what I am now saying to you, here under the stars--is the first time I have ever, even to myself, found courage to confess Christ." Very far away to the south a rocket rose--a slender thread of fire.
Then, to the northward, a tiny spark grew brighter, flickered, swung in an arc to right, to left, dipped, soared, hung motionless, dipped again to right, to left, tracing faint crimson semicircles against the sky.
Two more rockets answered, towering, curving, fading, leaving blue stars floating in the zenith.
And very, very far away there was a dull vibration of thunder, or of cannon..