Beneath the Shadow of Cabanatuan

Previously

…The last thing he saw before the darkness claimed him was the impassive face of Sergeant Mateo Reyes, standing over him, his rifle still smoking, a grim satisfaction etched into his features. The shadow of Cabanatuan had fallen, long and dark, and in its suffocating embrace, the Lion of the Philippine Revolution had been brought down, not by the enemy, but by the very hands he had sworn to protect. The silence that followed the gunfire was heavier, more profound, than any that had come before, a silence pregnant with the unspoken, the unknown, and the terrible truth of betrayal.