Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?

Locked into loneliness were we two and looking at one another every evening we each saw the one we blamed for it.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

To be part of a family, or any community, is to have duties and responsibility, to be bound by the rules of that group.

Thinking is not always...comforting. It is always good, but not always comforting. Royal Assassin

Sometimes it seems unfair that events so old can reach forward through the years, sinking claws into one's life and twisting all that follows it. Yet perhaps that is the ultimate justice: we are the sum of all we have done added to the sum of all that has been done to us. There is no escaping that, not for any of us.

Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.