the greatest danger is always the one we are ignorant of.

Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb

One had a knife. But I had a staff and was trained to use it.

It was hard to reconcile the drumbeats and lifted voices in the night with my memories of flames and the screams of dying men. How could humanity range so effortlessly from the sublime to the savage and back again?

How different would our perception of reality be if... we discarded the mundane events that cannot coexist with our dreams?

learning is never wrong. Even learning how to kill isn't wrong. Or right. It's just a thing to learn, a thing I can teach you. That's all.

Ah, Beloved. Of all the things I must bid farewell to, you are the most difficult to lose. Forgive me that I have avoided you. Better, perhaps, that we make a space between us and become accustomed to it before fate forces that upon us.