That's how life goes. Some times the evil roles change. Which is good as no creature is truly fully evil. I once heard a wise man saying: even the worst human is somewhere loved by another human. I find this is a good sentence to say.

Beautiful how you created your own naming of the respective comrades of Shog. As little as I like war, when it comes to protecting mine and I would be a strong guy, I would choose death so that others could live. At least in theory. But I hardly believe that we modern humans ever get enough practice in an honorable man-to-man fight to do exactly that and so it is at least desirable to develop an ethical mentality that allows us to find true integrity even in less life-threatening moments.

Your continuation of the story has particularly appealed to me. Thank you very much.