People hear and see what they expect to hear and see.
In the distance a wolf howls. Let it come, I think. Beast will most likely simply howl back, and the creature will either turn tail and run or fall into line behind him, like the rest of us have.
Surely He does not give us hearts so we may spend our lives ignoring them.
So.... You are well equipped for our service.' 'Which is?' 'We kill people.
It is a good thing I no longer have a heart, because if I did, it would surely break.
I bear a deep red stain that runs from my left shoulder down to my right hip, a trail left by the herbwitch's poison that my mother used to try to expel me from her womb.