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I am guilty of enough crimes for a thousand men. Torture, kidnapping,
blackmail, murder, bombings, Rains. All of it. I have broken nearly every
oath I have taken. I have flattened cities, set fire to generations, raised
oceans, broken worlds. I’ve killed men, women, children, if not with my
own hands, then with ships under my command. I have betrayed mentors
and friends and led them to their deaths.

“I dunno. I just think you’re a good man and you have a huge heart and I don’t think people say that enough. Just wanted you to know that I see it, Bellona.”

There is gossip too. That she was an unnatural birth. A freak from a
Grimmus tube. And—”

“She’s not a freak,” I snap.

He smiles, a little sad. “We are all freaks,” he says and shows his sigils.
“They made us so.”

“He wanted to shag you.”

“He did not.” Sevro stares at me like I’m an idiot

“He did not.” Sevro shakes his head.

“Maybe he is Ragnar’s da. Let him eat, I say. Chew, chew, evil bastard.”

“Personally, I think he’s a fraud but either way his luck won’t last."

You know, I once overheard Magnus au Grimmus tell your old companion Roque that losing an army will either make a man a philosopher or a suicide. Glad you chose differently than Fabii.


FRAUD POET LOSER

“Darrow of Lykos. You have a beard!”

“I mean, she stole your kids, man.” He nods to Pax’s key. “I’m no father, but that’s not just something you sweep under the rug. I don’t want to be a pessimist."

He points to the flower. “We don’t have these. What are they called?”
I pause. “The Vanquished Foe.”

His eyes darken and he examines it for a few moments before standing in
disgust. “A bad name for a mediocre flower in a meagre garden."

"If that’s not a loss, what do you call it?”

The old soldier frowns. “War, dominus.”

“They hanged my son here. His name was Darrow.”

"After all, what’s more dangerous than a man who believes his cause is just?”

“It is good to see you. Despite everything.”
“Go fuck yourself, Lysander.”

BOOK OF THE YEAR

But unlike Oppenheimer, who opened Pandora’s box and unleashed destruction, she opened the box and slammed down the lid as soon as she saw the gods creeping out. Well, she tried to, at least

'Anger’s all the fuel a Red lass needs to keep going."

“You were a bastard today, bit me like a goblin.”

“Good news. We’re not dead yet,” I say and stand. “Bad news, that was
the easy part."

“I dedicate this race to the savior of Heliopolis! The steward of Mercury!
The image of Silenius, last of his line. Lysander the Lightbringer!”

The sun has raged for 4.6 billion years. I have raged for sixteen.

Recognizing the disturbance in Odrade, Taraza played on it. “Well,
Dar, I think we finally meet as strangers.”

“So it’s not Dar and Tar anymore,” Odrade said

“Perhaps it never was Dar and Tar,”
she said, her voice icy.

buddy read

“She is too fat!”

She saw the Tyrant’s questions as though they had been limned
with glowing light on her inner eye.


“WITH WHOM DO YOU ALLY?”

TO YOU I GIVE THE CERTAINTY THAT THE BODY AND SOUL OF THE BENE GESSERIT WILL MEET THE SAME FATE AS ALL OTHER
BODIES AND ALL OTHER SOULS.”

“WHY DID YOUR SISTERHOOD NOT BUILD THE GOLDEN
PATH? YOU KNEW THE NECESSITY. YOUR FAILURE
CONDEMNED ME, THE GOD EMPEROR, TO MILLENNIA OF
PERSONAL DESPAIR.”

“Then she knew she would be attacked and had time to leave a
message. I saw your earlier report on the devastation of the attack.”
“It was quick and totally overpowering. The attackers did not try to take captives.”

“What did she say?”

“Whores.”

“Until Rakis,” she said.