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Yet a feeling is telling me it’s housing something else. But what?
You tell me!
Sevro gives him the crux. Quick shoots me a look of concern. “Right. Well. You’ve had a hard run, lad. A hard run. Act as you like. You’re entitled to it.”
“Why don’t you show me your new world then, old friend?” I ask. ”Help me to understand.”
Yet it is difficult not to let my wonder at the garden and Quicksilver’s ship decay into the sulky anger of a spurned lover who has been traded in for a younger model.
“Did it spring from doubt or hope?”
What do you think happens, if you did win, Darrow? If you do beat Gold down to nothing?
U kno what. Good point.
“Since this will be the last time we see one another, I feel an urge to be understood.
They found us in bed, and our children in their beds. They wrapped them in the sheets, hung them from the ceiling, and beat them until no more blood would come out. I sat in that rain…that red rain…and I understood there is no such thing as proper authority. Violence is the only authority. They said one of us could live. My partner refused to choose. I chose me.”
My jaw is on the floor
“That’s what progress does, you see. It leaps ahead of the past, but we can never outrun the trauma that fixed our course.
He wanted me to see him. Not to understand him, but to forgive him for running away. And though I’m angry, I truly do.
It’s been so long since I’ve had good news, I don’t believe my eyes. But it is there in front of me. Good news. And a path, waiting for me.
Oh darrow
“This is the path that is available to me. Your father left it for you. But we’re brothers, so in a way it’s my inheritance too.”
“According to my wife, we’ve forgiven you.
<3
For a horrifying second, I realize what it must be like to be him. The man cursed to use the weapons of the enemy to liberate people like me.
All the anger I’ve had for him over the years dissolves in the reality of his existence. I wouldn’t want to be in an Iron Rain. I wouldn’t want to fight a Peerless Scarred. And he’s fought them all.
“My fellow passenger?”
Ohno
If you find a planet of guileless nymphs, do send word.”
Oh cassius
In those fantastical stories, my brothers and sister always imagined we’d be their plucky lancers as Darrow and Sevro swept us away on their adventures, draping wolfcloaks around our shoulders when they realized what big hearts we had in our small bodies.
A golden fantasy appears—me and my sandwich alone in my cubby, getting to know each other real sloppy like.
Pleaselol
Maybe for a moment he thought someone didn’t know of his infamy. Maybe for a moment he thought he got to make his own first impression.
More and more I believe I have a true partner in my quest for Rim and Core unity.
:-)
They seem to take a measure of comfort in their relative insignificance, or perhaps it is the pride in knowing they are an essential part in an effort so massive. The Core could learn from them.
“Honestly it would have been better to let him get back to Mars than constantly worry he’ll pop out of nowhere and maul us while we’re all eating our trout.”
Lol
No enemy in history has ever set foot on that sacred ground where they engineer and advance the plants that feed billions.”
Foreshadowing hey?
“If Rim and Core are to be friends once more, moments like these will matter. I want the crew to see you there.
The skin is rough and baked tan by the sun. The muscles are ropier, the bone thinner.
Atlas???
“I didn’t want you to be here. But if you’re going to eat sausage, you should be able to stomach seeing how it’s made.”
?!?!
He’s working with the Ascomanni.
You fool. Fa is HIS
They make the brave choice. The stupid choice. They choose to stay to fight and die with honor.
They’re grinning ear to ear, and not at me. Atlas greets them all by name. “Barely got here in time,” Flavinius says. “Ascomanni are landing all over the ship. The bill is paid?”
WHAT
“A distress signal,” she says. Sevro glares at her in suspicion. “I thought we should just keep looking, in case…someone was alive.”
DIOMEDES
“Let’s just say that perhaps you shouldn’t have given your favor to some fucking ruster before the battle. Never know what bloodborne diseases those vermin might be carrying.”
Wow
I’m mad at myself for mistaking this man’s patriotism for loyalty. That means Kyber isn’t in his circle. Shot by a sniper, maybe, but not one from the Republic. He didn’t want her coming on this trip.
“The future of the Society should be decided by its patriots, not its betrayers.
Wow
The disgust I feel toward his methods and his action are dwarfed by the absolute awe I have for his capacity and his brutality.
Your vision will clear by cycle’s end. It won’t be as bad as the last time.”
Ong
“Your mother will be in Sungrave,” I say. “Gaia.” “Yes, she will be,” Atlas confirms. “Along with my sister, my nieces, and my nephews. And tonight as we sleep, or maybe tomorrow as we eat breakfast, the Ascomanni will enter through our family tunnels and Fá will breach the main gate. After that…well, you’re a student of history. You know what happens to cities that resist, and Sungrave has resisted the Society for hundreds of years. Its death will therefore be proportionate.”
What an evil man
With his back turned, I snatch the scalpel and conceal it. He sits with a wince.
!!!!!!
You can either try to kill me with that scalpel, or you can have a seat and learn how deep this tunnel goes.”
Lol :(
“You made a messiah. An Obsidian Darrow.”
I lean back, stunned. Twelve years! The whole time Atalantia, her father, and Darrow have been trading planets and ships in the Core, Atlas has been working on this project. “It was you. The helm cam footage the Ophion Guild sold to Dido. Proof that Darrow and Victra destroyed the docks…You pushed the Rim into war.”
Wowwwwww
Division is a cancer, Lysander, and I am excising the affected tissue.
“Then you are an idiot. Worse, you are selfish. These deaths cannot be reversed. They are a sunk cost. It would be a logical fallacy to let them influence your decision.
“What do you mean? A clone?” “Nothing so perverse or uncontrollable. A doppelgänger. A man by the name of Lepidus, chosen from Atalantia’s stable of paramours. You’ve annoyed her, so she’ll just keep your name and face.” Atlas casually glances at the corpse of Helios au Lux.
Wtf
Besides, you are too fixated on Darrow, boy. Darrow cannot win. Darrow is beaten. His only power lies in the mystery of his absence. He has no tools left to resuscitate his cause. No allies to call upon.
I have brought darkness to the worlds in its fullest extreme so you can bring the light.”
Atlas offers me everything I have worked for and fought for, not to mention the chance to stop the deaths of hundreds of millions, but the price is my soul.
Couldn’t handle your brother dying in the Passage, even though those were the rules you people made. Had to pout. So big, so small. Needy little Bellona. Sad, lonely Cassius. You’re hollow, man. Can’t even stand straight without a woman inflating your spine.”
Sevro is dead sober and spent his whole life baiting bigger men into unwise confrontations.
Lol
“It’s not my fault you weren’t there when your wife needed you most.”
Oh no...
