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Youth, Rin thought, was an amplification of beauty. It was a filter; it could mask what one was lacking, enhance even the most average features. But beauty without youth was dangerous. The Empress’s beauty did not require the soft fullness of young lips, the rosy red of young cheeks, the tenderness of young skin. This beauty cut deep, like a sharpened crystal. This beauty was immortal.
The world was simpler when all that existed was what you could perceive in front of you.
War doesn’t determine who’s right. War determines who remains.”
Fear was impossible to eradicate. But so was the will to survive.
The future is a pattern dependent on the movements of the present,
