Aren snorted. That small defiance gave him courage. ‘You don’t believe me,’ Klyssen said. ‘Well, we were all young once, idealistic and naïve. We all thought we could change the world. But civilisation is a structure too massive and rigid to be altered. You may knock down a pillar here and there, but new ones will replace them. You may repaint the façade, but what lies beneath remains the same. Attacking it is futile. You may as well attack a mountain.’ He took off his spectacles and polished them with the sleeve of his coat. ‘It’s time to grow up. Time you learned to deal with the way things
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