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You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.

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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
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Faces
Heart
Recall
Every
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Always
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Dead

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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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Death is a doorway, Niko, that leads to an adventure greater than any you have ever known.
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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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I can start the rain. Bring thunder. Bring lightning. Want to see?
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All gods are tricksters, and war gods worst of any.
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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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So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.
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We've the new hard-steel, though why they're all so hot to pay twice the price when men're soft as clay and even wood will pierce the boldest belly, I can't say.
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Generosity is never out of season.
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Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.
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Gods colliding, ethos and mythos trying to combine. The Sacred Band caught up in a whirlwind not of any god's devising: he and Niko had wanted to save twenty-three pairs of fated Theban fighters. Now everything feels fated and fighting oversweeps its boundaries of time and place and plane.
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Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.
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I...keep trying to be perfect. For you. So you'll notice me.
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