“I don't wear armor. I don't carry weapons. An emperor needs only his imagination.”
“I don't normally wear armor, but then, I don't normally have to face an army of Iron fey, either.”
“It was safe to assume that the rider would be carrying a weapon of some kind. After all, there was no point in wearing half armor and going weaponless.”
“I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.”
“The emperor beckons me; he wants me to marry his daughter.The road to the capital is long and distant; I don't want her.”
“There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.”