No over-reaching totalitarian or militarian governing body likes it when people fight back. They rule in fear after all. Humans share a herd mentality when frightened.
[There were exceptions to that rule, but in general, he had seen regimes just kill people for the sake of looking wrong. The fear was what kept people in line up to a certain point and then oppression led to rebellion and then rebellion led to war and so on and so forth. It was practically a cycle of humanities society.]
Come on, higher ground is probably safer or at least give us a view of where the enemy might be coming from.
[It also generally gave them time to plan the next move. Sometimes that came with the hazard of breaking one's legs, but it was better than dying.
Once he had the ladder pulled down and set, he started to climb it to the next level where stairs took over. He climbed with only a few glances back to make certain his tag-along wasn't have too much trouble.]
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[There were exceptions to that rule, but in general, he had seen regimes just kill people for the sake of looking wrong. The fear was what kept people in line up to a certain point and then oppression led to rebellion and then rebellion led to war and so on and so forth. It was practically a cycle of humanities society.]
Come on, higher ground is probably safer or at least give us a view of where the enemy might be coming from.
[It also generally gave them time to plan the next move. Sometimes that came with the hazard of breaking one's legs, but it was better than dying.
Once he had the ladder pulled down and set, he started to climb it to the next level where stairs took over. He climbed with only a few glances back to make certain his tag-along wasn't have too much trouble.]