World War Z Introduction Chapter 5 Around the World and Above Part 29

World War Z Introduction Chapter 5 Around the World and Above Part 29

[David hesitates before speaking. He is clearly uncomfortable. I hold out my hand.] Thank you so much for taking the time… There’s…more. If you’re not comfortable… No, please, it’s quite all right. [Takes a breath.]  She…she wouldn’t leave, you see. She insisted, over the objections of Parliament, to remain at Windsor, as she put it, “for the duration.” I thought maybe it was misguided nobility, or maybe fear-based paralysis. I tried to make her see reason, begged her almost on my knees. Hadn’t she done enough with the Balmoral Decree, turning all her estates into protected zones for any who could reach and defend them? Why not join her family in Ireland or the Isle of Man, or, at least, if she was insisting on remaining in Britain, supreme command HQ north above the Antonine. What did she say? “The highest of distinctions is service to others.”  [He clears his throat, his upper lip quivers for a second.]  Her father had said that; it was the reason he had refused to run to Canada during the Se…