Innocent Lives Quotes

“By this time Strade had also recovered his sense of self, his sense of duty. A commander in enemy territory, thwarted in his mission, but still alive, still able to save himself and rescue some remnant of his company perhaps, to bring them home and warn others of the unseemly cunning of Tarne. This girl, though innocent in her way, was a threat to all that. He rose quickly, flipping his dark cape to one side so that his insignia gleamed gold and bloody in the mellow light of a cloudy dusk. Ignoring a brief spell of dizziness and a lingering sense of regret, he hefted his long blade from beneath him and swung it murderously at the slight figure of the girl while her attention was divided between Makane and long summer days of peace and plenty. (The Lady of Tarne - chapter 1)”
― Martyn X Brown, Early Works Volume Four