We were like deaf people trying to dance to a beat we couldn't hear, long after the music actually stopped.

I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.

Here, in Alethkar, men often spoke of the legends -- of mankind's hard-won victory over the Voidbringers. But when weapons created to fight nightmares were turned against common soldiers, the lives of men became cheap things indeed.

Hmmmm Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.

My behavior is nonetheless, deplorable. Unfortunately, I'm quite prone to such bouts of deplorability--take for instance, my fondness for reading books at the dinner table.

Now, I had been frightened on several different occasions in my life. The most frightening of these involved an elevator and a mime.

You cannot tempt the hearts of men who are pure.