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With her third, Jalen, her climax agonies had melded directly to labor pains, and Jalen was the sweetest of her children by far.
I don’t think that’s how that works
community, eager to participate in what they knew was evil.” “There’s no evidence that the Color Prince’s people have done any of this,” Ben-hadad said uncomfortably. “This is what they want us to go back to!” “They probably don’t even know about this,” Ben-hadad said. “It’s here, in this library. How would—” “Are you on their side?” Cruxer asked. “You read it, you tell me if such things don’t go a long way to explaining why the Chromeria sent luxors out into the world.”
I like this scene because it shows a lot of the moral whataboutism in a lot of theology. The Color Prince’s people are fighting for an ideal that has left its origin (which includes eating babies) because the very real religious oppression happening now is too terrible to stand. Yet Cruxer doesn’t get it, he’s never faced cultural adversary as he’s a devote Parian.
“Oh, shit,” he said. “I’ll be right back.” He walked quickly back down the hall and opened the door, but the words dried on his lips. Commander Ironfist was on his knees, face buried in his hands, weeping.
This is very fun out of context
“She’s a Seer. She can tell all sorts of things. But there’s an order of assassins that wears these special cloaks. It makes them invisible to her gift. She’s seen that in many futures she dies, but she can’t see how, which has never happened to her before. So we believe one of these assassins must be after her. Me coming here likely means that the woman I love will die. That’s how much I care for you. I came for you, knowing it might cost me her. Fare well, daughter. Orholam’s light shine upon you.”
Ah Lightbringer, the series where every parent gaslights the heckie out of their children and then act surprised when they rebel against them.
“I am Abaddon, the King, one of the Two Hundred who marched out of the Tyrant’s palaces and went to make our own way in this wilderness, and a thousand worlds like it. I am a lover of queens and a father of gods. I am the Day Star, ushered from the heavens in glory.”
This is literally just Paradise Lost at this point
