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The first rule of being a wizard is that people are stupid and will believe things to be true if they want them to be true, or are afraid they might be.
Come to think of it, no matter where he went, he was taking money out of the hands of someone by cornering a market as thoroughly as he was planning. You wanna make an omelet, you gotta break some eggs. You’ve literally killed hundreds of people. Think of this as defunding Uleis to weaken their position while Kala negotiates, and try not to think of
all the thousands of people that will probably starve when you put them out of a job.
Just putting things into perspective. Moving up in the world crushes the people beneath you. There’s no way around it.
“Kala can’t be your friend all the time, especially not one you flirt with, while she’s being followed
around by her father’s goons. The earrings are indicative of when it’s safe to talk to her.” I did not get that from the conversation last week. “Why can’t people just be…what they are all the time?!” Calvin asked. “It’s about the roles we play in society.”
Why is he being nice to me? What, you thought he was going to huff and puff like the big bad wolf? He’s going to butter you up until you show him where to stick the knife.
‘One person can’t fight two people at once,’ Karen used to say. ‘If you ever see someone successfully fighting more than one person at a time, that is actually a series of extremely fast one-on-ones. You should never, ever try to fight two people at once if you don’t have to.’
‘If you ever see someone successfully fighting more than one person at a time, that is actually a series of extremely fast one-on-ones. You should never, ever try to fight two people at once if you don’t have to.’
Look good with one hand, kill ruthlessly with the other.
disheveled, but otherwise okay.
