You know, I
could wax poetic about the curbstomp that was the defeat that goes here today,
but instead of doing that, I shall provide a battle replay, and a mini-fic. I’d
finally developed a strategy—after the defeats of Prishe, Laguna, Lightning and
Yuna—but somewhere along the line something went wrong and I panicked.
…then
everything went wrong.
In the space of a few moments I went from rage, to dis pear despair, and then looped right back to incoherent rage.
You know the
moment: the moment when you realize you’re doomed, when the line from Dante’s Inferno
comes to mind unbidden—“Abandon all hope, all ye who enter here…”
( The Inferno, Regnum Dei [The Kingdom of God] )