Informants can be helpful, but they are never infallible. All tools can break, or be turned into weapons.
Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.
In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.
He likes to humble our foes by making them seem ridiculous. As he said to me the other day, ‘Kill a man, and you cede him honor in the eyes of the gods. Laugh at him and you shame him'.
There is a hand behind every curtain,' she quoted. 'And a knife in every hand,' finished Mara.