If no one remembers a time before there was an England, then no one can imagine a time after it. The empire survives in part because we believe its survival to be inevitable. But it isn't. And they know that. That's why they're so terrified of you and I. If we are able to take Nassau, if we are able to expose the illusion that England is not inevitable, if we are able to incite a revolt that spreads across the New World... then, yeah. I imagine people are going to notice. "Too much sanity may be madness, and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be."
“Being cheerful starts now, Will thought as hard as he could, but it was like trying to hold a fighting wolf still in his arms when it wanted to claw at his face and tear out his throat; nevertheless, he did it, and he thought no one could see the effort it cost him.”
You are not unlovable! There is always something to love! Even in a stupid, stupid universe where we have hot dogs for fingers, we get very good with our feet!
This war may feel over, but as long as we're all free, it's far from it. And if somehow we prevail in Nassau, what happens to former friends who've since aligned themselves so warmly with the governor?