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November 25 - November 30, 2022
“You’ve made this mess,” the White snapped. “You’re going to have to clean it up.”
She pulled the trigger. Because she was angry. At Vhalnich! Why can’t anyone see what he really is?
What the hell does he think he’s doing?
Keep a knife in your boot, is my advice.
loose-order tactics
brushfire conflicts
It’s amazing what we can get used to.
I didn’t think the army made you take a vow of chastity.
How prepared are you going to be if you’re falling asleep in the saddle?”
“Ready. Level. Fire!”
Give-Em-Hell
went through the motions.”
unicorns—Winter
exactly what I would say if I were one of them, to gain your trust. Right?”
If Sworn Priests are telling villagers to slaughter babies like hogs, maybe we ought to root them all out.
What is he planning to do with it? Become the next Demon King?
“You’d think that our stay in Khandar was nothing but leave and parades,” he muttered, after the fourth or fifth time.
Head home as fast as I could, and to hell with anybody who tried to stop me.
“Nobody wants a general looking over their shoulder when they’re getting drunk,” Winter said. “But I figured I deserved something.”
“Philosophers can’t hold their liquor.”
“This sounds bad. If it involves cannon, I’m going to have to stop you right there.”
A while, and a whole lot of corpses.
Find out a person’s deepest desire, and you have a lever to control them.
fucked this up beyond repair.
Clearly you should go around kissing everyone you meet until you’ve got enough to form a real conclusion.”
Why do I never know what to say?
“In the future, feel free to kill any Penitents we run across without asking permission.”
“What’s going to happen to Vordan if the queen and the First Consul freeze to death in the middle of Murnsk?”
Weren’t expecting that, were you?
Who was Mya? The name meant nothing to her. Someone who died, obviously. Like me.
Sacrifice thousands of men, or let things get complicated?
“Are you all right?” “I will be, if you let go of me,” Winter said.
keyed up
“We all have our scars, Marcus. You of all people should understand that.”
Are they drugged? Or is this some ritual they’ve all trained for?
“And her sidekick Bobby Forester.
“Your problem,” Raesinia said wearily, “is that you expect the same trick to work every time.”
We can cross that bridge when we come to it.
Do it, Raesinia told herself. Just do it. Or it’ll never get done.
The last thing I need is an audience.
inadequacies.
He closed his eyes. I’m still coming, he told her. It will just take a little longer.
