feel too many things and they want you to feel them, too. And half the time you cannot save them, no matter what you do, but you cannot tell them that. And they act as if you are a fool or a god, and honestly, sometimes you feel like both. It had all been too much. Too many feelings. Too many emotions. He had fought for a post where there were only the dead, who felt nothing any longer, and he had won it, and everything had gotten so much easier. “Even the ones who die by violence?” asked Galen, looking at him with those flawed jade eyes. “Even then. Sometimes I can help get a little justice.
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Re: Piper’s view on the living and the dead
