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A heavy dread was slowly churning my guts.
Expecting the worst helps to keep you from getting sucker-punched—and in my world, there are always fists waiting to hammer on the unwary.
Like all bullies, he was a coward at heart.
Now? It was far too late for me to think of taking up any other trade, living any other life.
And I realized there was a hole in my life, a place where a family was supposed to fit. Like a missing tooth. Or a severed limb.
I would be looking over my shoulder every second, and waiting for assassins in my sleep.
Thus wisdom grows; in stony, unaccustomed soil,’”
You've already pulled on trouble's braids.”
I am no one’s tool.
control is an illusion.
Tools are made for a purpose. They have a function, sometimes many functions.
adventures are, on the whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs. Having spent thirty years wandering the world, I should know. I didn't get this useless leg from staying home and milking cows.
sensibly gave up any interest in returning and letting the rest of plodding humanity know about it.
as people are, by and large, ignorant twits.
If you take only one piece of advice from this old scribe, let it be this: Don't go there. Just don't. If you do go, please have this tombstone made up beforehand: I Went To Deathland Even Though Lhiewyn Of Lucernis Told Me Not To
And Now I'm Dead, Because I'm Stupid
And no, I'm not going to publish my maps and notes from that expedition, because I don't believe in encoura...
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“History is useless. History is boring. Tell me about the exciting and exotic lands,” you're saying. Stop it. You're saying this because you're an idiot. History is important and you don't need all that much of it to keep you healthy. Those who do not learn from it are doomed to repeat it, and even worse, the rest of us will probably suffer the consequences.
and all the powers more or less stuck to tending to their knitting after that.
It was a good couple of centuries for mortals. Then, of course, we fucked everything up.
