T H E E N D C O M M U N E

there is a carving in an empty, ruinous prison cell on the Greek island of Crete, and this was the prison cell of Terpsichori Chryssoulaki-Vlachou, a young anti-fascist woman. Just before her execution under the Nazi occupation of Greece, she carved into the stone:  

"I am 18 years old and sentenced to death. I am waiting for the firing squad any minute now. Long live Greece. Long live Crete!".

What did Terpischori feel as she wrote that?