“But there is no easy way to mourn a child.”
“My soul insists that I mourn not a man but a child.”
“I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.”
“He made small talk on the way about how he was abandoned as a child and will only rest easy once he is avenged. His name was Tom.”
“Yet humanity could not conceive. It tried and tried, and called mighty wizards from every corner of its earthly kingdom, but no child came. Many mourned, and said that a child was a terrible idea to begin with, ...”
“Only the debris of wreckage, and not much of that, was left behind by the sharks who fed on tragedy: the fishermen, too, mourned the death of a living child.”