If this keeps up, weโre going to own Melengar,โ Hadrian mentioned. โWhatโs this we stuff?โ Royce asked. โYouโre retired, remember?โ โOh? So youโll be leading the Nationalist advance, will you?โ โSixty-forty?โ Royce proposed.
Michael J. SullivanWill nodded toward Hadrian. โLook at the swords heโs carrying. A man wearing oneโmaybe he knows how to use it, maybe not. A man carries twoโhe probably donโt know nothing about swords, but he wants you to think he does. But a man carrying three swordsโthatโs a lot of weight. No oneโs gonna haul that much steel around unless he makes a living using them.
Michael J. SullivanAnd now she has you seizing control of my army.โ โYour army? I thought this was Gauntโs.โ โSo did he.
Michael J. SullivanSee, thatโs the difference,โ Mauvin said. โI suffer a loss and people console me. Royce suffers a loss and whole towns evacuate.
Michael J. SullivanWhen you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.
Michael J. SullivanYou think youโre a very clever fellow, donโt you?โ Saldur challenged. โNo, Your Grace,โ Merrick replied. โClever is the man who makes a fortune selling dried-up cows, explaining how it saves the farmers the trouble of getting up every morning to milk them. Iโm not cleverโIโm a genius.
Michael J. Sullivan