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Survival has its own etiquette.

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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
Survival
Etiquette
Strategy

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I am always yours to call, wherever the sea can reach.
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Each soul has its appointed doom. How is it you dare to raise a mortal boy so high - high enough to flout the gods? Bring godhead where a man may reach out and take it? growls Enlil, and lightning splits a clear blue sky.
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This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.
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Tempus wanders eternally, bringing death to whomever loves him and being spurned by whomsoever he shall love.
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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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Everything that anyone respects is what men naturally excel at: fighting, accruing wealth, playing at power.
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Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.
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It is hard to battle anger, for whatever it wants it pays from the soul.
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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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I thought we'd die there, quarrels in our backs, you for what you did and me for bearing witness.
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Niko, you're halfway to where you need to go. It's the most dangerous time. And all the gods and forces have a stake in you, Hero. Or do you want to be just a memory, a cult somewhere, with people sacrificing horses to your name?
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You've been playing gods-and-witches again, that's clear.
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Die never for a god, Nikodemos who should know better - not your soldiers' god, nor any other.
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Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'
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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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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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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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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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The heavens listen to what is said on these cobbles. Laws of man and nature come together here. Here you must be firm. Here you must be true.
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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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