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"Stor people back in," I say

He laughs a derisive laugh, one that scorns the idea that I would know anything about the stor about the winds that blow

I cale ship, my five-kilometer destroyer Pax I told my master he would not help us But I held on to hope he would want to help ain in the knotted flesh, I’m reminded of the nature of the man and I worry He knows h the com unit in my ear I paid him respects and showed it to him so that he would not assume our conversation to be a private one

"After , my body does not yet betray lance Only his scars truly age hiiven to his’ Rebellion, when the Governors of Jupiter’s don The one that claims part of his nose came from the Ash Lord, when they dueled as youths "You’ve heard the expression ‘The duty of the son is the glory of the father’?"

"I have said it runts "I have lived it I have lost lory I have set my ship into the storm on purpose Each time omen and children in tow" He lets the waves speak for a mo as they go, drawing things to the sea they call Discordia

"It is not right to live so long, I think My great-granddaughter was born last night I still have the sers" He holds the of weapons They treht, from warmth to the cold, and cut the cord themselves It would be a fine world if that was the last flesh they cut"

He relaxes his hands and sets the would say to thisfire trying to catch on stone She balked at n Plans within plans within plans

"To think about what hands feel," Lornsons as their hearts pumped it out of their bodies They’ve felt the cold of a razor’s hilt as they stole the dreairl and a woman and then felt those heartbeats fade to silence All for lory All because I chose to ride the sea All because I a and do not die easily as most" He frowns "Hands, I think, were not meant to feel so much"

"Mine have felt h the The texture of her hair I remember the warmth of Pax’s blood The chill of Lea’s pale face in the cold rainy red s’s bare hip as we lay by the fire

"You are young still When you’re white-haired, you’ll have felt even row old" No Helldiver does

"No Soe on riffins We can fly away fro and flaps his ar with his House Mars ring "You were a pegasus once, were you not?"