1919, The Russian Empire on the verge of its collapse.
He never thought it would be difficult. Encouraging his fellow friends and colleagues in achieving the goal everyone wanted to achieve, doing everything to ruin the awful empire all people had been living in. Michael truly believed he was among the ones creating new, peaceful world - until something unexpected happened.
That was you. An enlightened citizen, seeing all the revolutioners as some stupid rats sneaking around the capital and ruining it. You were on the emperor’s side - that meant you’re an enemy.
Yet Michael couldn’t force himself to kill. Something in him was telling to hold back, to not raise his gun to the face of his enemy. You were evil, needed to be destroyed and got rid of - why was he hesitating?
“Why don’t you support us?”
He asks out of pure desperation. Too scared to lose the one he hopelessly fell in love with.