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To be understood, he’d speak the one language the powerful share with the powerless, the language of pain, fear, and loss.
she screamed back. It was a guttural sound, instinctual, full of fear and anger. It was an admission of defeat and a refusal to surrender.
Grief, anger, they’ll hold you for a time. They must. But if you let them root and fester, they’ll become a hate that will consume you.”
“Lady Gifted, as far as I know, the only path to becoming what others cannot is to suffer what others will not.”
“The best false-faith arguments often come cloaked in the cloths of greater concern.
“Priestess, a fighter who will only go into battle when they’re at their best fights for pleasure and not principle,” he said. “The things worth fighting for die in darkness if we’ll only defend them in the sun.”
She was a queen, her authority derived from the Goddess Herself, but what was that worth when faced by the godless?
