Lately I’ve felt the burden of time more and more, all too often dwelling on everything I’ve missed. I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I r...
I’m going to adopt you. You’d make a wonderful daughter. Hey, evil-minded future daughter number two. You heard Arkana. What do you think? Grudgingly, Shukrat admitted, I think she’s right. Excellent!...
It is not good form to bicker with your superiors, however wrong they may be and however one-sided their determination of their superiority
If war is too important to trust to generals, then policy is too important to trust to politicians.
I guess I was getting blasé about windwhale-riding.
I believe in our side and theirs, with the good and evil decided after the fact, by those who survive.
I am the Daughter of Night. I am the Child of Darkness Forthcoming. Come to my mother or become prey for the beasts of devastation in the Year of the Skulls.
First, Simplest Explanation. The simplest and most obvious explanation of any phenomenon is usually the correct one.
Even Brownie had a comment, a small doggie whimper. She leaned against the outside of my right thigh. Yeah. I started scratching ears. Those beasts have selectively bred us for thousands of years.
Equal justice for all. As long as you make it yourself.
An old, old formula came to mind, from back when I was very young indeed. I am a soldier. I said it first in the language I had spoken then, then repeated myself in Sleepy’s own Dejagoran dialect. I’v...
'Did I snore again last night?'-'You solidified your grasp on the all-time women's championship. You're ready to compete at the next level.
Monsters aren’t born, they’re made. That they are memorials which take years of cruelty to sculpt. And that while we should weep for the tortured child who served as raw material, we should permit no...
Get in touch with the seamiest side of yourself. Pick a fantasy, one you wouldn’t tell anyone about. One that makes you uncomfortable or embarrassed when you think about it. In the Tenderloin there’s...
The man who counts on the aid of a god deserves the help he doesn't get.
The Dead Man once told me that monsters aren’t born, they’re made. That they are memorials which take years of cruelty to sculpt. And that while we should weep for the tortured child who served as raw...
Relway mused, Now that it’s happened I’m not so sure I’m happy with the outcome. Spared their racial theories The Call would’ve been good for TunFaire. He would appreciate their interest in law and or...
One-Eye’s handicap in no way impairs his marvelous hindsight. Lightning
Okay, Croaker. What the hell happened?I don't know. The falling sickness?Give him some of his own soup, somebody suggested. Serve him right. A tin cup appeared. We forced its contents down his throat....
Mythology is one area where nobody wants to know the absolute truth because time has forged great symbols from raw materials supplied by ancient events. Prosaic distortions of fact metamorphose into p...