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ebb6308
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"I don't make the laws, I just enforce them." "Then remind me to introduce a new set of laws, since the ones we have clearly assume a level of common sense that's lacking."
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kaylin-neya
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Michelle Sagara West |
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428c360
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Sanabalis never seemed to eat, and he deflected most of her questions about Dragon cuisine. Then again, he deflected most of her questions about Dragons, period. Which was annoying because he was one, and could in theory be authorative.
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sanabalis
kaylin-neya
teacher
food
students
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Michelle Sagara West |
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faf6c48
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"Stop judging your life only by the failures," he whispered. "What should I do?" she whispered. "I'm always going to fail." "We all do," he said softly, his voice closer now. "We all fail. But none of us fail all the time."
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kaylin-neya
severn
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Michelle Sagara West |
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aac4791
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"What would this have been, if it had more power to give?" "This may come as a surprise to you," he replied dryly, "But I am not an Ancient. Nor am I, human philosophy aside, a living construct." "Which means you don't know." "Which means, as you so succinctly put it, I do not know." - Kaylin & Tiamaris" --
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tiamaris
kaylin-neya
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Michelle Sagara West |
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a31ff8e
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At the very least, if I have not - yet- chosen to end your life, I refuse to allow any of my kin to forever deprive me of my prerogative to do so.
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kaylin-neya
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Michelle Sagara West |
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d10ab4e
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"Bellusdeo laughed. It was, for a moment, the only sound in the quiet of the fief's night, and it was warmer and deeper than the lingering night chill. When her laughter faded, she glanced at Kaylin. "I was not like this before. I thought that the Shadows had not touched me." She lowered her head a moment. Kaylin understood this, as well. "It seems so unfair," she finally said. "Life is unfair. Which part of it pains you?" "We suffer, and it breaks something. When we win free--by gaining our name, by crossing a bloody bridge--we still live in a cage of scars. If life were fair, we would never have suffered what we suffered at all; having suffered it and survived, we're still reacting to things that don't exist anymore." "But they did." "Yes. I hate that they still define me." Voice lower, she said to Bellusdeo, "I want that to change. I don't know how to change it. But I'm willing to spend the rest of my life trying." Shaking her head, she forced herself to smile; it was surprisingly easy. There was something about Bellusdeo that she liked. "Home is a strange thing." "What do you mean?" "We lose it, and we think it's gone forever. That's how I felt the first time I lost mine. It took me years to understand that I could find--and make--another. I couldn't do it on my own, though; I don't think--for me--home exists in isolation."
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kaylin-neya
family-values
home
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Michelle Sagara West |
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She outpaced Severn. Whole years of her life had been narrowly defined by the fact that she couldn't even .
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