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No remorse for abandoning my post, although it seemed dissonant to do so. I don't think I'd do so for real.

As for the Dwarves I don't think there was much emotion in it. I remember coming to one of their fortresses which had suffered a breach from an ettin attack, and they were rebuilding. All the bodies gone, no hot dramatic fire, just a sullen cleanup.

It was more a sense of forlorn inevitability. Dreadfully lonely and resigned. Only a matter of time before their last holdouts were destroyed.