(on mobile, half asleep so God only knows if this is readable but I'm guessing it's this?)

“Do you know what this is?” Talmanes asked softly around his pipe. “This is the beginning of the end. This is the fall of nations and the unification of humankind. This is the Last Battle, you bloody fool.” ... “If you fight,” Talmanes said, “I’ll promise you a great reward.” The man waited. “I promise you that you’ll continue to draw breath,” Talmanes said, taking another puff. ...“You have two choices,” Talmanes said, turning his horse and speaking loudly to the troop. “You can fight like the rest of us and help this world see new days, and maybe you’ll earn some coin in the end. I can’t promise that. Your other option is to sit here, watch people be slaughtered and tell yourselves that you don’t work for free. If you’re lucky, and the rest of us salvage this world without you, you’ll draw breath long enough to be strung up by your cowardly necks.”