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THE FUTURE IS CLANLESS.
“Kaul Hiloshudon, Pillar of No Peak, I offer you a clean blade.”
“If I might ask, Kaul-jen, in the interest of serving you better, is there anything objectionable about any of the women you’ve spent time with here?”
HES CHEATING ON WEN???
“I have a wife and children at home. I don’t need conversation.” He stood. “I won’t take long if you cooperate.”
BROTHER EUGHH
It broke Hilo’s heart every day to see Wen so feeble and incompetent, to hear her speak with such ponderous difficulty.
She had disobeyed him, kept so many of her activities secret from him, put herself in harm’s way, nearly leaving him a widower and their children motherless.
Bitch you do the same thing
“They do what they like and why should hypocrisy stand in their way?
Tar could Perceive the animal fear swelling in him as his eyes traveled up from the edge of the hooked blade to the Green Bone’s face, to the stamp of madness there.
Hes insane i love him
Having lived so long in the uncompromising sunlight of Hilo’s love, the absence of his affection was a lifeless and unending winter.
“Thank you for saying so,” he said after a moment. “I hope you’re right.” “Of course I’m right.”
her gaze was nevertheless drawn unwillingly across the table, to the disfigurement of Ayt Mada’s partially missing left ear. The old scar across Shae’s abdomen prickled. The Pillar of the Mountain glanced in Shae’s direction. Their eyes met for one wintry second. Then Ayt turned back to her conversation.
IM TELLING YOU THEYRE GAY
“Throughout our long and proud history, we’ve shed rivers of blood for our independence. We are more than capable of doing so again.”
“And not every clan has resources to spare after glutting itself with barukan recruits and black market profits.”
Get her ass
No Peak was already falling behind financially, and any further loss of confidence on the part of its Lantern Men would accelerate its ruin.
Im surprised the clan has lasted this long
I did everything that he asked and kept his secrets without question. That was a mistake. I should’ve spoken up, I should’ve confronted him, I should’ve gone to Hilo-jen. But I didn’t. I was happy to be promoted, and even though I knew Lan was injured and taking shine, I left him alone when he most needed me.”
:(
“And who controls jade? Who sits at the top of this pyramid of violence and corruption? The Green Bone clans of Kekon.”
He’d planned the assassination of an international jade smuggler; he’d nearly been executed by the Crews along with Rohn Toro; he was secretly a powerful Green Bone who’d put on jade to bring a woman back to life.
He was also the most skilled jade user soooo
