“The time elapses still faster brothers. Our walls may shake, but they shall never fully crumble; akin to our will they are unbreakable. It has been days that we have spent starving, nearly till our armor does not fit, but we shall stay steadfast. Their catapults may batter us, and their men may cut us down, but for every one of ours who has fallen, many will lay dead in their wake; and for every household destroyed, hundreds more of theirs will disappear.”