It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand.

Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.

War has its necessities...and I have always understood that. Always known the cost. But, this day, by my own hand, I have realized something else. War is not a natural state. It is an imposition, and a damned unhealthy one. With its rules, we willingly yield our humanity. Speak not of just causes, worthy goals. We are takers of life.

I was needed, but I myself did not need. I had followers, but not allies, and only now do I understand the difference. And it is vast.

The future can ever promise but one thing and one thing only: surprises.

Oh yes, I have learned much from Tremorlor, and so assume a like strategy. Silence, a faint mocking smile suggesting I know more than I do, an air of mystery, yes, and fell knowledge. None could guess my confusion, my host of deluded illusions and elusive delusions!

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.