Short Circuiting Fate

" As his story wound to a close he leaned forward as if he were about to release some great secret, dropped his voice and said “we got lucky”. I leaned back, looked him dead in the eye and told him the truth, saying “Luck had nothing to do with it”. Because in the end what sway can fate have over a man willing to wade through a mire of putrescence so that he could fight alongside his soldiers?"
365 and a wakeup