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Crush your enemy, drive him before you, hear the lamentations of his—”
“I don't have any love for the Jai clan, but as for you, if I saw you on fire I'd hold an umbrella for you so the rain didn't put you out.”
“Don't think,” she warned him. “After an injury like this, it is your thoughts that are most deadly. Your fears, your pain, your despair, they are deadly poison. Do not let them rule you.”
It wasn't the trap you saw that killed you.
Eithan looked from his enemy’s weapon to his own. “Longhook, is it? You can call me Tiny Scissors.”
“A dragon always fights.”
Naru Gwei wouldn’t last any longer against an Archlord than a Copper would. And the Sages were the greatest of the Archlords.
"He is looking to stand out by provoking one of the Empire's villains in front of everyone," the turtle said, not bothering to keep his voice down. Everyone heard. "He is not confident enough in his results to let them speak for him, so he has to distinguish himself in another way. He is the weakest sort of scavenger, crawling along the bottom and looking for scraps. Crush him."
“She must be impressive, to get a dragon to back down.” “Even dragons,” Orthos said, “know when to bow.”
"Once, and once alone, will I defend your empire from the fiend that rises against it. Soon, I will have greater concerns…so you must raise protectors of your own. They will defend us all from the great calamity that follows. I await your success, Underlord."
"When a horse carries a man, which of them is the stronger party? It is only suitable that a dragon should carry lesser creatures."
Yerin reached out to the Blood Shadow like it was her madra. Her spirit. Part of her. It resisted her, of course. But this didn't have to do with advancement level. It was pure grit. As far as that went, she wouldn't lose to anybody.
"You'd be surprised how often people listen to me when they're left with no choice.
Then he turned to Lindon. "Why is it that I so often find you locked in a dark place, filthy and exhausted and covered in blood?"
How did the people on the bottom stay on?
