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“Are you crazy. We can’t fight them. They’re Badgers.”
“Aye. Fight, and you may die. Run, and you’ll live. At least for a while. And dying in your bed, many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days, from this day to that, for one chance — just one chance — to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!”
“You’ve been watching too many movies. It’s just a squeaky toy.”
Three Line Conversations were inspired by Haikus. I borrowed the form of three lines, but without the syllable counts. And dialog instead of poetry.
If you’ve never seen it, the Dog with the tags was quoting the speech before the big battle in the movie Braveheart.