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There are stranger things here than Thebans know about.

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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
Suspicion
Stranger
Destiny
Things

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Don't forget, Riddler, how I love thee. Or all we shared together. Or that this sea and all other seas can lead you back to me.
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Now the Fates are here on the beach, three shadows blacker than black, walking through the dunes and looking for their own. Just shadows, lamb-white hands beneath black robes spun of tears, glide among the celebrants on this night wherein the spirits of Thebes have found a home, if serendipitously.
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Survival has its own etiquette.
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I see all sorts of things when I'm clearing my pipes.
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Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.
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You get what you expect. Expect to heal. Expect victory.
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Something is going on everywhere, most of which no one understands.
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Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.
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Keep your enemies at a distance, your partners close at hand.
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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.
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Deception is a tactic: use it. Do whatever it takes to win.
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Generosity is never out of season.
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Gods have bloody hands.
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One man can make another's life so much better.
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What we hold sacred is honor, justice, and glory. You need not swear allegiance to our storm god, to serve with us. Fighters are among us from many lands, with many gods and many beliefs. Believe as you will. What is between a man and his god is theirs alone to say.
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Go carefully, child of mat, where no mercy can be had, and let your faith lead you on.
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Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.
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The only unfair fight is the one you lose.
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For Tempus...was a dozen storm gods' avatar no army he sanctified could know defeat no war he fought could not be won. Combat was life to him he fought like the gods themselves.
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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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