The Lies Arcana Quotes

“But this? People given a chance to find the truth of their heritage and gifts threatened because they will not simply lie down and die to leave the status quo? “No, Ambassadors. The Royal Martian Navy will not stand by and permit this to happen. If Mage-Queen Kiera herself ordered me to stand down, I would defy that order. Politics and constitution be fucked. “Task Group Twenty-Eight is going to war. While I breathe, those children will not be harmed.”
― Glynn Stewart, The Lies Arcana

“You two can be as conflicted as you want,” he told them, his voice somehow both gentle and iron-hard. “I am the commanding officer of a deployed Task Group of the Royal Martian Navy, responsible for twelve thousand lives and over two hundred Mages. “I am sworn to honor Her Majesty’s oaths and protectorates, and I am sworn to honor the Compact between Mage and Mundane. It is the oath of every Mage that magic will serve humanity, not damn it.” There was a long pause and Connor wondered just what Rantala had been looking at on his own screen. “I may not be a Mage by Right,” Rantala concluded. “But seventeen of my Jump Mages and fifteen of my Combat Mages are, Ambassadors. Necessity meant that I had to bite my tongue and swallow my rage for this mission, even as we entered, and you treated with systems we knew murdered innocents to fuel their starships.”
― Glynn Stewart, The Lies Arcana