“Believing everything she readIn the daily news,(No in-between to choose)She thought that onlyOne side won,Not that BOTHMight lose.”

“He was overconfident”, she told him. “And I won so the gods must have thought I was right. Otherwise they’d have made me lose. You know how trial by combat works.” “You won because you were good” he corrected her. “I find it hard to believe the gods sit forever about the Divine Realms betting on jousts and trials by combat.”

“If there was one thing she was learning from all this, it was how easy it was to lose everything you had always thought you'd have forever.”

“There’s no such thing as winning or losing. There is won and there is lost, there is victory and defeat. There are absolutes. Everything in between is still left to fight for. Serpine will have won only when there is no one left to stand against him. Until then, there is only the struggle, because tides do what tides do–they turn.”

“...choose to believe in your own myth your own glamour your own spell a young woman who does this (even if she is just pretending) has everything....”

“In between calls, she lay on her side, thinking about calling.”