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“Aye,… Stand and be true, all three.” 🥹

“They were men, that was all,… Oh, they thought they ruled the roost, all right - nobody in Mid-World accused anyone of forgetting the face of his mother - but they were poor things,…moved to tears by a sad song, utterly undone by the sight of a bare breast, and all the more capable of being manipulated simply because they were so sure they were strong and tough and wise.”

“Time is a face in the water…”

Her hands were still out at her sides. Now she raised them to Alain and Cuthbert, palms up. “I love him.” My heart! 😭

“But time is different here. I've told you that; now you see for yourself. Not all nights are the same length just recently. Days, either ... but we notice time more at night, don't we? Yes, I think we do?”

“Jump in and let all these cares ease… Only the hum of the growing cavity in the center of the universe…”

“Who did? Who understood anything anymore?… These days you were usually just grateful to find things that still worked at all.”

Captain Tripsss!

“Overhead, a full moon came out from behind a scrim of cloud, painting the clearing and the stream in the tawdry hues of pawnshop jewelry. There was a face in the moon… which looked upon those few beings still alive and struggling below with the amusement of a lunatic.”