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Was it possible, Lan wondered, to be both a strong leader and a compassionate person, or were those two things opposing forces, pushing each other away?
She became focused and efficient, and the jade energy playing through her blood was like a song she hadn’t heard for a while but still knew by heart.
It’s not true that the dead don’t care, Shae thought. You owe the dead.
There’s a way to discipline a man so he hates you forever, and another way to do it so he loves you all the more for it. To know what it is, you have to know the man.
“Expectations are a funny thing,” Wen said. “When you’re born with them, you resent them, fight against them. When you’ve never been given any, you feel the lack of them your whole life.”
Now, he thought after some time, I can plan for death.
Politics moved slowly and blades moved fast.
