Happy endings are a luxury of fiction

How am I going to make friends with these people if all I can think of is how easy it would be to rob them?

I always love writing the third book in a series because you get to tie up all the threads that you put out in the first two books. You finally let people know what really happens and reveal all the secrets and bring certain characters together.

Though I can’t help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.

Mortals did not need gods to order them to kill eachother. They were quite capable of finding reasons to do so themselves.

He had given her too much. He had given her everything.

I still recommend reading travel guides as an insight to a travellers perspective on fantasy worlds. Nearly all characters end up travelling at some point, and they have many of the same needs and concerns covered in travel guides.