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“I said you’re cannon fodder.” Kwang’s voice was even. “The Emperor will give you guys any made-up story if it means you’ll stay put and die for him. You may think you’re great warriors with some noble purpose, but as far as the capital is concerned, you’re just game pieces.”
Takeru couldn’t lead his way out of a paper bag, she very nearly said aloud. You need a spine to lead.
“A competent god would never make a housewife with your skill and hunger. You might look like a decorative flower, but you’re more sword than anything else.”
What sort of a man closed his eyes to the world and called it clarity?
“But there are worse things than fighting,” Misaki said. “I like a bit of fighting. It’s silence I can’t stand.”
The Daybreak jaseliwu always said a man was more malleable when his head was swelled with praise.
Wholeness, she had learned, was not the absence of pain but the ability to hold it.
