There is no such thing as a happy ending. Every culture has a maxim that makes this point, while nowhere in the Universe is there a single gravestone that reads 'He Loved Everything About His Life, Especially the Dying Bit at the End'.

...Hardly. A ragged apron does not a waiter make.

That's the last order I'll ever give you Captain. Don't you dare ignore it.

Oh,It's going to be so easy to kill you",scoffed Opal.

The two of them went down in a heap, with not even a turkey to break their fall.

Maybe I’ll keep you.” Abbot chuckled and prodded Artemis’s back with his sword. “It’d be nice to have a pet human around. I could teach you tricks.” “I have a trick for you,” said Artemis, and he fired a single blast from the gun.

Caballine likes me to be masterful. She calls me her stallion.