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Are we not all one flesh? One mind? A sword brings power. Knowledge brings coin. With either, one can make blood reckoned, can earn names. The only thing that differs between a noble man and a working man is that they have now, while the other does not have it yet. Such things can be taken. They are always taken.Chris Galford
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Say what you will, dear sister, we do what we do for the promise of our youth. Yet it is always they who scar beneath the points of daggers.Chris Galford
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Everything burned, everyone lied, and no one paid for it but the ones in the muck.Chris Galford
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Hold mirth tight against your breast, but answer every injury with bladed heart.Chris Galford
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All men were tools, as she saw it. Dangerous tools, when roused, but that was why one took care in efforts of control. It all came back to leverage. It wasn’t enough to ask a man if he would kill his brother. One had to make him see the consequences if he did not. Then one could only ask, which would he choose: brother or daughter? For all that kin might mean, most would choose the daughter.Chris Galford
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The simple truth? History was never simply history. If it was anything it was another collar–another means to control.Chris Galford
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Madness is a regenerating thing. Like a phoenix, when one strand dies, another burns anew.Chris Galford
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Duty and honor are oft enough realm only for those with security to afford them.Chris Galford
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Without shame, without conscience.Chris Galford