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For seven hundred years, my people have been enslaved without voice, without hope. Now I am their sword. And I do not forgive. I do not forget. So let him lead me onto his shuttle. Let him think he owns me. Let him welcome me into his house, so I might burn it down.
They say a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. They made no mention of the heart.
“While you ate, I trained. While you drank, I trained. While you sought pleasure, I trained from the weeks after the Institute to the days before the Academy.”
The Rage Knight falls from the sky, and I laugh in his face. He cackles. “Don’t you recognize me, you little shiteater?” “Fitchner, you look uglier than I remember!”
Honestlh. I love them hahah
Inside I feel such a boy—angry, petulant, selfish, guilty, sad, alone—and yet they look to me.
the lowColors are dead. I’ll never forget those faces. I brought them this. How many families will weep because of what I did here?
I’ve never killed men with so little regard. And it frightens me how easy I find it in war.
Why can we not breathe life back into her? Why can we not simply restart the day? Do everything right. Save the ones we love.
He was never a monster; and if he ever becomes one, I know it will be because of me.
“In another life, you would have been one of my sons, Darrow. I would have found you earlier, before whatever happened that filled you with this rage.
“You are a worm who thought himself a serpent just because you slither. But your power was not real, Pliny. It was all a dream. Time now to wake.”
“Tell all who will hear, the Reaper sails to Mars. And he calls for an Iron Rain.”
This is for you, I tell her. For the world you should have lived in.
For some reason I think I could have been capable of great evil. Maybe that’s the guilt. Maybe that’s the fear of a life where I never knew Eo. I don’t know. Or maybe it’s the fear of knowing how easily I fall to pride.
“I don’t like that you brought me here. I don’t believe you’re being the man you want to be. If you survive this and I don’t, be better than the man who tricked his friend.”
This is about freedom. Yet it seems like everyone just wants to follow.
His aspirations are so grand that he has become inhuman in his desperate desire to preserve humanity.
