(...) Clay knew better. He and Gabriel had been friends for thirty-five years, and Gabe had been talking him into doing recklessly stupid shit for damn near all of them. He was a charismatic craftsman: every heart a furnace, every soul a blade.

Nicholas Eames
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The narrator of "A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R.R. Martin tells the story of three men who are friends for thirty-five years. It's not an easy friendship to maintain, especially when one wishes to destroy the other two. The fact that the narrator has been friends with the other two for so long means that he knows them intimately.

He knows everything about them, what they can do and what they cannot do. Yet he still talks his friend into doing reckless stupid shit, because he does not see how it could go wrong. Even when Gabriel has talked him into taking a knife back home with him, even when they are trying to get rid of it, the narrator says that he knows better.

Source: Kings Of The Wyld

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