“A hundred feet underground, in a fake field beneath a fake sky, with an ogre slaughtered like no more than a rat to a cat, and he sends us to search for the unusual.”
“I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt.But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.”
“When I look at the fields, all I can see is how fake they are, how poor an imitation they are of the pictures of Sol-Earth fields. [...]And that's why I'll never be as good an Eldest as he is.Because I like a little chaos.”
“....faking his real life so he can live his fake one.”
“Nobody would take the time and effort to hang a fake moon in a real sky.”
“I wanted to walk away in denial, watch the news and believe the cat was faking the whole thing for attention.”