Niko, you're halfway to where you need to go. It's the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?

When the balance is restored, people get hurt.

Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known.

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.

Niko knew death like a sister - she was his true partner in the phenomenal world.

Live to fight on other days.

Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.