( 'Please ... I won't ... please.' (Lillianne, Yuriko, Ewen, Keiko, NPCs) )

I am bone weary.

But the children are safe.

"I'll rip, you fix?" (Padraig, Erik, Jason, Raven)

( 'Having a calling card is what keeps this sort of thing entertaining.' (Erik) )

A few necessities marked off the grocery list. I pity the women who are slaves enough to their cycles that they need such undignified and unpleasant devices. Tampons. I stopped bothering with menstruation barely four years after menarche ( Read more... )

Hateful child and her fool's tongue. I am not sorry. I am certain there will be repercussions, but I will deal with them as I must.

And I don't resemble that woman.

At all.

( 'I wonder what my last words should be...' (Raidha) )

I knew he was an idiot before. And I thought: cannon fodder ( Read more... )

Those who would question my loyalty will pay a price for it, even if only a meagre one. I will submit to whatever punishment is necessary.

Ask myself whether I am here for the "right reasons". How very absurdI am here, am I not? Has my loyalty ever wavered, since my coming here? Has there been any sign that it would? I am here. I stayed ( Read more... )