The more you know about the past, the easier it is to divine the future.
Royce took out his dagger and drove it into the table, where it stood upright. Look at the blade. Is it bright or dark? Hadrian narrowed his eyes suspiciously. The brilliant surface of Alverstone was...
Royce hated keeping secrets from Hadrian, and it weighed heavily on his conscience, which was amazing, because he had never known he had one. Royce defined right and wrong by the moment. Right was wha...
Their business was profitable but ugly. Just another game he played in a world where heroes were legends and honor was a myth.
Spring had let go of Winter's hand and was reaching out to Summer
Just another game he played in a world where heroes were legends and honor was a myth.
The two of them just sort of clicked, like old friends who’d just met. Friends-at-first-sight, if there was such a thing.
Believing the worst of people, of the world in general, was a trap too easy to fall into. Hadrian had fought beside soldiers who'd developed similar views. Such men saw evil and virtue as concepts of...
That we’re both right. One truth doesn’t refute another. Truth doesn’t lie in the object, but in how we see it. Hadrian
I think comfort can be a curse, an addiction that without warning or notice erodes hope.
Royce decided to try to reason with Hadrian. Would you rather they find out and send a detachment to hunt us down?No, I just hate being the cause of an innocent man’s death.No one is innocent, my frie...
Royce found Hadrian splitting logs near the stockade gate. He was naked to the waist except for the small silver medallion that dangled from his neck as he bent forward to place another wedge. He had...
Royce started for the steps.Hadrian whirled with his hand up. No! Just relax. Let me deal with this.Royce hesitated, more because Hadrian was blocking the way than because he agreed.Everyone turned to...
If you don't abandon hope on pleasant days, why do so on those that being poorly?
You should have woken me. I would have taken a shift at the tiller.We actually considered it when you started to snore.I don’t snore!I beg to differ, Hadrian chided while chewing.She looked around the...
None of you understand what love really is. It's not lust, or dependence, or infatuation, or familiarity. Love isn't a fondness or butterflies in your stomach.
One of the children lived.
No god, goddess, or spirit would ever inhabit or employ a chicken.
Hadrian leapt to his feet. Royce was already up.Don’t bother, Esrahaddon told them. She’s dead, and there’s nothing you can do. The monster cannot be harmed by your weapons. It—The two were out the do...
It's not easy to subdue a person bigger than you and not hurt him in the process. Well, I think I found your problem, then. Why don't we try hurting him?
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