‘Armies bathe in blood,’ said Aranict. ‘That is the truth of it, isn’t it, Commander?’ ‘I fear we all bathe in it,’ he replied. ‘Cities permit us to hide from that bleak truth, I think.’ ‘What would it be like, I wonder, if we all ate only vegetables?’ ‘We’d break all the land and the wild animals would have nowhere to live,’ Brys replied.
