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She slept through two hundred sixty-six years of Tunneling as the speakers above her bed blatted a polite, unheard alarm.
“A thing is not what it looks like, but what it does. Finest priestliest cup in the world won’t keep nai hot in its belly on a long walk in the rain.”
I know the surest way to encourage fools to follow a wicked man is to tell them not to.”
for even the unkindest truth strengthens a man more than the prettiest lie.”
“My own mother. She was just so…bitter and angry and so fucking eager to stick poison in her veins and trade everything she had—including us—for more. And I know that’s a pretty sick excuse, but I felt like I’d been watching her die for years. As bad as it was, having it over, finally over, felt good.”
“And you will not go,” he said dryly, “if it means leaving me. Hear Uyane Meoraq and mark him well, human: Sheul has given me your life and I do not give it back to you. I have been lenient with your freedoms
until now. No longer. Do not test me. I’m not very nice either.”
“I am not leaving you,” he said, not shouting, not even hissing. Somehow, that was worse. “I am never leaving you. If it is our Father’s will that we take the hateful S’kot and his hateful servants back into my camp, so be it, I serve Him in faith. For now, it is my will, human, and I will have your obedience. How do you mark me?”
Blind faith has got nothing to do with truth.”
“You can make a story mean anything, Meoraq. But that’s the thing with you religious people, isn’t it? God is this glorious intangibility, so no proof becomes proof just by how you spin it.”
“Your clay is much too frail,” he went on, watching her walk clumsily to the mouth of the cave, “for the soul it must house.”
felt firm,
“I’m the warning.”
“But there will be a boat,” he told her. “And a helicopter. So hold on, Amber. Watch for them. And take the chance when you see it, because I can only give you one.”
“Looks like the storm is clearing,” he said.
want to go home, Amber, and I want to stay home when I get there.”
