[ She nods, stiffly, and she has done her best, in the intermittent, to not think on it, to only focus on here and now. But it's always there, it is always just there. What she lives for, what she dies for. Her whole being made up of one moment standing on the walls of her Fortress giving the order to fire the cannons in one battle, there she exists, there she will always exist.

She is nothing more than that moment stretched over continents. ]

From Sri Lanka in the south to Bangladesh in the north, I am treason under those ruled by British Law and trading with the United India Company. You face a lifetime imprisonment and exile to Australia, so I am told, for telling my story.