"Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today," says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from his gaze.
Janet MorrisDie never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
Janet MorrisThere must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.
Janet MorrisSometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.
Janet MorrisGods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.
Janet Morris