Josh
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Age is a funny thing. Gets to a point where the past is unbelievably long and the future terrifyingly small.
“She came at me claws bared, then slowed as I found a crack in her mind, forced myself into the oozing darkness inside and ordered her to stop. Her mind was like sticking my hand up an angry badger’s arse – she fought me every step with feral rage like I had never felt before.”
― God of Broken Things
― God of Broken Things
“If I wasn’t who and what I was then I didn’t think I’d ever have noticed the taint to my thoughts. There was no way to know how much the magic had altered me in body or mind. I shuddered, horrified, fighting the urge to vomit. When a magus gave in to the Worm it didn’t create something that wasn’t already there, it was far more insidious than that: it took what already existed and twisted it, stretched it out in obscene directions. Those thoughts were horribly, and entirely, the darkest whispers of my own mind.”
― The Traitor God
― The Traitor God
“I would do what I was good at – sneaky bastardry and fucking people up when and where they were least expecting it.”
― God of Broken Things
― God of Broken Things
“In this life you can do everything right and the worst can still happen. Sometimes it craps on you at the roll of a dice; mine just happened to come up all ones.”
― The Traitor God
― The Traitor God
“a shovel to the face was every bit as good as a fancy sword.”
― The Traitor God
― The Traitor God
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