It’s what happens when you shoot someone,” Wayne pointed out. “At least, usually someone has the good sense to get dead when you go to all the trouble to shoot them.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

The ways of Wayne are mysterious and incomprehensible.

The nature of morality must be considered, and preferably before one is exposed to situations where a moral decision is required.

How totally unexpected," he declared, then proceeded to faint from blood loss.

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.

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)