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A strange thing, to be adrift in a creation wrought by a mind you cannot comprehend! It’s like studying a tapestry, and attempting to imagine the loom that made it, only for it to defy you.

So much age, so much death. We live within tombs, within tombs, within tombs. The question is— how to find our way out?

Fuck I knew it! I said it, but didn't want to believe in it! Genius twist

I then felt what was possibly the most bizarre experience I’d ever had in all my life: my mind very calmly informed told me I was in two places at once.

That was the problem with temptation. It never let you be: it just stayed there, perched on your shoulder, whispering in your ear.

“I’ve a confession, boy,”she said. “I have not been honest with you. Or, not entirely honest.”
I waited.
“You did not gasp in surprise, I note,” she said.
“I did not, ma’am. You use the truth like a basket-weaver might a reed.”

“Have you noticed, brother, that we both escaped home and Grandmother in our own way, and found ourselves in service to new old women who are both more than a little mad and cruel?”

I watched him go, his gait dreamy and sad, his hair a bright, shimmering veil in the night. I caught a whiff of his scent, apricots and spice, and felt my pulse hot in my ears.

It's been quite too long indeed since Din last hit on someone. He's showing way too much restraint! Give us back promiscuous Din!

Nevermind, I don't think he'd be so ruthless to kill his own son

Could it be that amiable giant Trikao is not so amiable and past his loss against his sister? 🤔