Mike

“An-Kirilnar is.” The Helmsman stopped dead, so abruptly that it took her a moment to realize there were no more words coming. Flicker of shifting light across the optics, there and gone. But this time she saw it for certain. “Angfal?” “Quests are pretexts, Archeth. They are tales told, narrative blankets to wrap you against the cold you cannot bear.”
― Richard K. Morgan, The Cold Commands