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Tempus would be protected, better shielded from whatever the Stepson thought threatening, if love could heal and save.
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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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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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Use him wisely. Few have been given such a weapon by the gods or Fates before.
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If cities have souls, Sanctuary's was troubled long before Tempus got here, and will be troubled long after he and his are gone.
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Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.
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"Mercy is not in favor in my heavens today," says Vashanka, unforgiving and combative, folding vast arms and spearing Harmony with lightning that crackles from his gaze.
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Gods and politics are the tools with which the godless and unprincipled manipulate the gullible.
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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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Look to the souls of Your own soldiers, God, who labor in Thine awful cause.
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To take care of the world seemed, finally, a privilege rather than a burden. The Riddler had led them to life's greatest victory. They had found a home.
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This is for you. A mage named Randal told me to give it to the Band if you ever came back. 'It surmounts evil,' he told me, 'keeps doom at bay.'
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Here Stormbringer spies the Stepsons, the Theban fighters, and the 3rd Commando, attending to their own. In the face of such unflinching determination and unswerving devotion, the hurricane pauses and calms. Its ravings turn to mutters.
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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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There must be a corps that will battle for righteousness, for there are endless battalions who serve unrighteousness.
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Ask yourselves if the gods are angry, you who have seen Harmony come among us, walk among us, touch us, look kindly upon us. We are the Sacred Band of Thebes. We fight in the forefront, therefore we bleed first. We live, therefore we die.
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And what do the Theban hoplites see in this extended rending of the sky, this white-bright glory of Enlil's lightning? The future, but not theirs: paired cavalry fighters; formed ranks of armored death; grim men on their tall horses with lightning limning weapons tailored to the task; men spoiling for a fight if the gods allowed - the Sacred Band of Stepsons, out from shadows and the dark.
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The meaning of life, Nikodemos, is to live life with meaning. The purpose of life is merely to live it, perhaps to give it.
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Niko knew death like a sister - she was his true partner in the phenomenal world.
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You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god.
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Janet Morris
Born:
May 25, 1946
(age 77)
Bio:
Janet Ellen Morris is an American author of fiction and nonfiction, best known for her fantasy and science fiction and her authorship of a non-lethal weapons concept for the U.S. military.
Known for:
High Couch of Silistra (1977)
Tempus With His Right Side Companion Niko (1987)
I, the Sun (1983)
The Sacred Band (2010)
Beyond Sanctuary (1985)
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