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“He’d just witnessed an execution. The woman named Lorn had risen from the turgid mists of the past, risen to right a wrong, to find justice and in that last act reclaim its life—and she had been denied. Not by the words of Dujek or Tayschrenn, but by the thing known as the Adjunct. … The flat tone of her voice told Toc that her invitation had not for anything—and this horrified him.”

“The Empire has its history, and we are each in it.”

“Play on, mortal. Every go falls at a mortal’s hands. Such is the only end to immortality.”