It’s the shadow road for you and me. And you dance it right, no one will ever know your name, let alone the pig-sticker in your belt. ‘You’ll be a rumour. A whisper. The thought that wakes the bastards of this world sweating in the nevernight. The last thing you will ever be in this world, girl, is someone’s hero.’ Mercurio handed back the blade. ‘But you will be a girl heroes fear.’
