“I doubt the world around me. I fear what I can’t control. But I do not doubt myself, and I do not fear the one thing I have power over: me.” I bring the blade to his throat. “But, but…I took away your ability to fight.” “I don’t need to know how to fight to end you. It doesn’t take skill to kill a man on his knees.” I drag the tip of the weapon across his cheek. The Five of Swords won’t vanish until it tastes blood. Now I can dismiss it at will. “Yield, or die.”
