This was our first introduction to one another, two criminals born and raised on this soil. Two criminals who could not stand to see their homeland suspended, as they are now, who had a staggering self-possession, at a time when humanity was wiped from the dictionary in that deluge of blood in that basement.
كان تعارُفنا الأول، مُجرِمان من تراب الوطن، لم يهُن عليهما أن يبقى معلقاً كما هما الآن، رأيا في نفسيهما عزّة مُنتصبة، في وقتٍ مُسحت فيه كلمة الإنسانية من القاموس في طوفان الدماء بذلك القبو.