I must decide if you deserve to die.
He loves the world so much. I agree it would be a shame to take that love away from meadow and tree, stream and sky, and all that lives in nature, and leave them lonely.
Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.
โNiko and his women will be the death of all the Stepsons yet.
I don't want to be any closer to the gods than death will bring me.
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.