The Land: Raiders (Chaos Seeds, #6)

by Aleron Kong

The chaos seed thanked his lucky stars that half-listening to women as he walked was a skill he had mastered long before coming to The Land.

Chauvinist

“As is within so shall be without.”

History had shown again and again that ignoring evil because it did not affect you was a short-sighted and often deadly mistake.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Socialist. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out – because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out -- because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me – and there was no one left to speak for me.

Gentle, yet stern, apologetic but somehow still commanding, his father had said, “Be better than the men that came before you.”

“Diplomacy is the art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions.”

You know what you do when you assume, right?” “Yeah, yeah,” Richter said. “You make an ‘ass’ out of ‘u’ and ‘me.’”

We are only lost when we believe the evil of this world is beyond our ability to defeat it.

One of the sprites had predictably objected, but Richter had just asked if the remains of the dead were more important than the lives of the living.