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‘It was as if he himself were embodied afresh in this lad. He could protect this boy as he had not been protected himself. He had the power to stave off the destructive forces that had once torn his life apart. After all, they were no that different. The ship had said so. To protect him would be like saving himself.’ p152

‘Their words did not bother me. I knew I had a heart, but it slept within me and I saw no need for it to awaken. In the runes I traced and deciphered, in the strange mechanisms I dismantled, I thought I had enough to occupy all of my thoughts. I was annoyed when my mother insisted I accompany her to visit Bingtown for that meeting. Annoyed! All that was swept aside in the first moment I dared to speak to you’p144

‘I’ll have my life in your hands… You are doubtless accustomed to such power. I have never wished for it.’ p43