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This is the truth. You will know because it hurts.
she glimpsed an imperium, a mechanism of rule building itself from the work of so many million hands. Remorseless not out of cruelty or hate but because it was too vast and too set on its destiny to care for the small tragedies of its growth.
She was powerless without her patrons. Could power be real if someone else gave it to you?
Go, then. Learn all their secrets. Cover yourself in them. You will return with a steel mask instead of a face.
The Masquerade had taught her all the names of sin. But her parents taught her first.
Some things are not worth being within.”
It’s not what the Masquerade does to you that you should fear, she wanted to tell Ake. It’s what the Masquerade convinces you to do to yourself.
come, rest and sing; I will make a safe place for joy.
Everything she most wanted in this instant would destroy everything she had most wanted for all the rest of her life.
That we are not free. Not even when we march beside them, nor even when we lead them. Freedom granted by your rulers is just a chain with a little slack.
She accepted the bargain without understanding the price.
