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Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.Nenia Campbell
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Heritage was everything: it was a golden skeleton key, gleaming with power, able to get the wielder through any number of locked doors; it was the christening of the marriage bed with virgin blood on snow-white sheets; it was the benediction of a pristine pedigree, refined through ages of selective breeding and the occasional mercy culling. It was life, and death, and all that spanned between. It was his birthright.Nenia Campbell
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But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.Nenia Campbell
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Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits of it.Nenia Campbell
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They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animals–if they didn't devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.Nenia Campbell
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A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy.Nenia Campbell
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Why do women always feel they have to settle for less?Nenia Campbell
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Maybe it frightened them, to admit that a woman could be master of her fate.Nenia Campbell
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In a fight between a shifter and a witch, the shifter would often win–but only if they could keep the witch from speaking, usually by severing the throat or tearing out the tongue. If the witch was powerful enough, and quick enough, physical size didn't matter. Catherine had heard of the horrible ways the witches could kill their victims. Cooking them alive from the inside out, restricting oxygen flow through the nasal and oral passages by creating a vacuum, drowning them with vapor pulled from the very air. It made fights between shifters look almost humane by comparison.Nenia Campbell
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...there was a difference between killing for nourishment and killing for curiosity or sport.Nenia Campbell
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He was a phoenix of blood, rising from the ashes of those who had fallen and suffered before him.Nenia Campbell
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We hunger in earnest for that which we cannot consume.Nenia Campbell
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If evil had a laugh, she thought it would sound like his.Nenia Campbell
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In trials of ir'n and silver fain“ The dead will rise and walk again“ The blesséd few that touch the light“ Will aid the war against the night.“ But one by one they all will die“ Without a cause to rule them by“ As Darkness spreads across the land“ He'll wield the oceans in his hand.“ Five warriors will oppose his reign“ And overthrow the Shadow Thane“They come from sides both dark and light“ The realm the mortals call “twilight.”“A magus crowned with boughs of fire“ Will rise like Phoenix from his pyre“ A beast of shadows touched with sight“ Will claim a Dark One as her knight“ The next, a prophet doomed to fail“ Will find her powers to avail“ The final: one mere mortal man“ Who bears the mark upon his hand“ The circle closes round these few“ Made sacred by the bonds they hew“ But if one fails then so shall all“ Bring death to those of Evenfall.Nenia Campbell
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Fear could drive one to violence as quickly as anger could.Nenia Campbell
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Most creatures run when they sense danger. People grab a six-pack and a folding chair.Nenia Campbell
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Keep calm. You have the forest in your blood.Nenia Campbell