Only those you trust can betray you" ~ Nathan

Wizard's Eleventh and Final Rule The "Rule Unspoken", the "Rule Unwritten", "The rule from the beginning of time.

Boundary wardens, Zedd thought, were tougher than they had a right to be.

If you want to be a slave in life, then continue going around asking others to do for you. They will oblige, but you will find the price is your choices, your freedom, your life itself. They will do for you, and as a result you will be in bondage to them forever, having given your identity away for a paltry price. Then, and only then, you will be a nobody, a slave, because you yourself and nobody else made it so.

Fantasy allows you bend the world and the situation to more clearly focus on the moral aspects of what's happening. In fantasy you can distill life down to the essence of your story.

Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

It does the sheep no good to preach the goodness of a diet of grass, if the wolves are of a different mind.