You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance.

Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.

Alanna didn't approve of lying, but in a pinch a lie was sometimes better than the truth.

He's just rather more lively than most fossils.

A crow may put on human shape or crow shape, but we remain crows,” he replied firmly. “Hawks, too, are the same, whether they are born in human nests or hawk ones. The nestlings must always be protected. Since you have chosen to protect these, I and mine will protect you.

You are the Protector of the Small. You see real people in the humans and animals overlooked by your peers. There will always be work for you.

Moral issues rarely have yes or no answers. -Myles to Alanna when she asks about the Gift