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The had died but the whispered secrets would live on within me.

Something more than a mother, something of the divine, an intermediary between heaven and earth, the vessel that brought them from over there to here, who'd made flesh out of spirit. They made her believe in holy things for a time, until they all disappeared... and the miracles that they were became dust, leaving her above ground only to preach about their passing... for which she refused to testify.

...[T]o openly murder or wage war (on a rival House) brings down the merciless might of drow justice (not because of the act itself, simply as punishment for the boorish act of fighting in public).

Expend life force to increase magical abilities/damage 🤔

There's a naked lady already!

Okay, Ed. Bring it on.

We heard people on their cell phones, all up and down the street, begging frantically for help, giving directions to where they thought they were beneath the rubble, within the rooms of their houses. Phones rang and we heard people answer them. Then--fewer and fewer voices. The tinny, persistent ringing of cell phone tones: different songs rising like wind from underground with no answer.

After what happened, happened, it seemed to me it was best to believe in gods that had not harmed me. Lou's gods. My mother's gods. Being sent to Catholic school had severed me from them... At least I could read, count, pray the catechism. I thought this made me lucky, but in other ways, it made me poor, like a pocket turned inside out, empty of coins.

There was a broken hilt labeled: This broke and Leroy got killed. 1999.

Is this a Leroy Jenkins reference?? 1999 is too late for the original clip but 2007 is totally when the meme was in its prime.

Loki just bopping in like 'here's your heart, I was thinking about eating it but I changed my mind'

On a long view, no one occupies the centre. [History] belongs to all of us.

...(a 'phallus' is simply an academic penis)

Digging up ghosts in a way that feels real