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‘Blessings to he who waketh to witness the glory of the Infinite Father,’
I’ve been in Irfut my entire life, born and raised, and I’m still treated like a stranger—still stared and pointed at, still excluded.
We recite it whenever we enter a temple—a constant reminder that women were created to be helpmeets to men, subservient to their desires and commands.
“My apologies for what just happened. Men can be animals, especially around girls as pretty as you.” Girls as pretty as you…
Woman is the Infinite Father’s greatest gift to mankind.
Despised are the marked or scarred, the wounded and the bleeding girls….
Never invite trouble into your house, as the saying goes.
“Be careful to close your mouths before flies invade them,”
for any warrior—death should be a familiar friend, an old partner you greet before you step onto the battlefield. Do not fear it, do not shy from it. Embrace it, tame it to your will.
‘We who are dead salute you’ to our commanders before we ride off into battle.”
“Our whole lives, we’ve been taught to make ourselves smaller, weaker than men.
“The truth is, girls have to wear smiling masks, contort themselves into all kind of knots to please others,
A devil’s bargain, to be sure, but what isn’t in this life of ours?
You think and think and run your mind in fine little circles, and yet you never quite grasp the truth of the matter.
“And that’s the worst part. The physical body—it heals. The scars fade. But the memories are forever. Even when you forget, they remain inside, taunting you, resurfacing when you least expect.”
Never forget: the same gift they praise you for now, they will kill you for later.”
they’ll remember that you’re a woman. That you’re unnatural…That is how they are. That is always how such men are.”
“Death is a common thing for our kind, which is why we welcome it, consider it an old friend.” I point my atika at him. “Do you welcome death, Bax—”
“The Gilded Ones were never demons. They were goddesses.
