In Tsurani culture, forgiveness was simply a less shameful form of weakness than capitulation.
Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. ‘Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.
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'.
Informants can be helpful, but they are never infallible. All tools can break, or be turned into weapons.
There is a hand behind every curtain,' she quoted. 'And a knife in every hand,' finished Mara.