But now I know how large the world is... Well. I suppose I have grown to large out of my faction. As a consequence.

I want to break something, or hit something, but I am afraid to move, so I start crying instead.

I am his, and he is mine, and it has been that way all along.

I tell myself, as sternly as possible, that is how things work here. We do dangerous things and people die. People die, and we move on to the next dangerous thing. The sooner that lesson sinks in, the better chance I have at surviving initiation.

Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.

If you see someone in trouble, you should help them. Experiment or not.

Stiff. That’s why you’re strong, get it? - Tobias Eaton