Alan Rustage > Quotes

“if the starets can be killed, why can’t a member of the aristocracy?’ Vladimir asked. ‘Why can’t a member of the imperial family? Why can’t the tsar himself? You must be careful when extracting a brick from the foundations, that it does not bring”
― Alan Rustage, Blackstone and the Endgame

“Rasputin’s death is the first rent in the cloak that has shrouded tsarism – and kept it safe – for centuries, and soon that rent will grow, and the cloak will be torn apart.’ ‘I’m not sure I know what you mean,’ Blackstone admitted. ‘Rasputin was known to be under the tsar’s protection, and that should have been enough to ensure that no harm could ever come to him,’ Vladimir explained. ‘But now he is dead, and everyone can see that the tsar’s protection is not as absolute as it was once thought to be. And if he could not keep Rasputin alive, are there not perhaps other things that he cannot do? The magic, you see, is starting to drain away.”
― Alan Rustage, Blackstone and the Endgame