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For all her efforts to push Jason into the waiting arms of the Lord, the closest she came was food poisoning so bad, it had him praying for death.
“Are you saying your world’s better than mine?” Jason asked. “We have magic,” Gary said. “We have internet porn,” Jason said.
“We’re slowly phasing it out in favour of wealth-based oligarchy, but it’s still around.”
“If you stay quiet when you wished you’d said something,” Jason said, “that regret builds up. Starts eating you from the inside, and there’s no potion for that.”
you never learn who you are when everything goes right. It’s in your darkest hour that you understand what it is to be an adventurer.”
“Oh?” “When you’re just a face in the crowd, then you can hold an ideal without being required to live up to it.
Being a good person means being good when the choices are hard, and there’s a price to that.”
“I’m not very smart and simple formalities are super-hard to figure out. It’s definitely not that I find them to be a set of arbitrary behavioural norms that serve as a tool of exclusionary tribalism and that eschewing the rituals of cultural performance facilitates the fostering of new relationships by having both sides step out of their preconceived societal modes.”
“You’re an adventurer now. Go to the jobs hall, get a contract and have some damn adventures.”
“What do I normally do to people?” “Confuse them until they want to punch you in the face.”
“Well, if you call your apocalypse beast Gorgos, the Enslaver of Worlds, then people are likely to start questioning your intentions,” Jason said.
“What happened to bros before hoes?” Jason called out over the blasting air of the propulsion ring.
“I don’t know what that means,” Humphrey called back, “but it feels like I should respect you less for having said it.” “That’s fair,” Jason said.
“You make us sound like tyrants,” Thalia said. “That’s the thing,” Jason said. “You are if you want to be.”
“Have you not met people?” Danielle asked. “We love choosing ignorance.
