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Walk on, through pain and suffering. Keep moving, don’t waver before adversity. Move around it and walk on. Endure the horrors of life, push them away but never forget. Instead, allow them to change you in a way that is good. Allow wisdom to infuse you and walk on, ever forwards,
To be a father again, a husband, to belong, Ona, not as he does with us, but in the flesh and blood. My only question is this: where are the families of all these Shirán? Do they live in Estuary? Further afield? Is it not allowed for them to live in Origenta? I’ve never asked Dantor, and now it seems strange that I didn’t. Family brings with it stability; surely that can only benefit a Shirán Warrior.”
“His price is too high. He demands obedience. He requires humiliation. He is taking their pride away, taking their history, their culture and their rights away in exchange for eternity.”
As a human, she had felt like a revenant. As a revenant, she felt worthy, unmoved by personal gain. So, what was it that made a person evil? Was it their nature as elves, humans, or revenants? Or was it the society they had been born to, the education instilled on them, the ethics and morals of society that make a person good or bad, enemy or ally? Or maybe it was both. It was just too early to tell.
“How many of these Arlysians are there, I wonder,” mused Lainon. “I thought all humans were half crazed with immortality, yet now, I’m beginning to question it.” “An eternal life of fear and slavery, or a mortal life in peace and joy.”
Arzen is powerful, and that power riddles his mind. It makes him strong and confident, skilled at gaining the submission of others. But so too does it weaken him. It makes him quick to act, slow to think. Only Hajnor could temper this weakness. It’s why we can never allow the Adak to return to Arzen’s side.
To one who is not a warrior, Panassar’s obsession with mortifying Feldar might seem petty, self-serving – even cruel. But to a fellow soldier, it was the best way of deflecting fear – for what they had to do, for the consequences that battle can bring. Humour without war is what we fight for. War without humour is unbearable.
