There's more to clothing than just adornment. It does more than merely change how the world perceives us. It changes how we perceive ourselves.

Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.

Love is hard, harder than steel and thrice as cruel. It is inexorable as the tides, and life and death alike follow in its wake.

There is no fulfillment that is not made sweeter for the prolonging of desire

It is a comfort, in anguish, to be reminded of the scale of one's own troubles against the mighty breadth of the world.

And for a price, I will pretend absolutely nothing.

Pain redeems all. It is the awareness of life, a reminder of death.