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And as for death - we get what we expect.

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Janet Morris
Age: 78
Born: 1946
Born: May 25
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Janet Ellen Morris
Janet E. Morris
Ontology
Humility
Expect
Death

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These Stepsons tread where mortals don't belong, some of us think. They seek out battle high above their station. Who knows what powers may yet take them and their mystic allies to task, bring them their comeuppance?
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Choose life over death, Niko, when a choice can be made that puts no soul in jeopardy.
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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.
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If it was true today, it might be untrue tomorrow.
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Gods are nothing without their worshipers they act on the affairs and the passions of men.
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Nothing powers hate better than embarrassment.
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Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.
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I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.
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Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
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The city guardsmen were like the keres, doom-bringers of merciless vengeance.
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To the death with honor, shoulder to shoulder, and no one gets closer to a Stepson than his partner.
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Niko's angular face caught a flicker of firelight and Tempus saw his future there: sharp purpose, discipline, and power in perfect balance love of man and gods, and mercy transcending all. If war ever wore a more humane face, this one would make it so.
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Such hubris could only come from a man's mouth.
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What doesn't bend must break, when dooms are apportioned and destiny takes the lead. As it will now, and as it must, until this struggle ends.
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Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.
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Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.
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Love sees all hate is blind.
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Loyalty must be forged - to him, to his: stronger than iron, from experience, from risk - it can't be bought, or taught, or promised before the fact. Allegiance must be earned so it will hold, win or lose.
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I...keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.
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