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“Battle is gruesome, but it is vigorous, alive. The aftermath is the worst of it: adrenaline fades, quiet sweeps in, and theres nothing to distract you from the mess of bodies and disturbed earth.”
“Ashtadukht slumped and let thenightingales song flood her brain. She knew that empty tone, that defeatedoutlook; she knew it intimately. Even now, it burned in her as limply as asnuffed flame. Pass...”
“She did not belong to the healthy group of widows and widowers who, after mourning, would nurture the seed of their grief into growing from lossperhaps continuing the dreams of the lost, or learnin...”
“Ashtadukht slumped and let thenightingale’s song flood her brain. She knew that empty tone, that defeatedoutlook; she knew it intimately. Even now, it burned in her as limply as asnuffed flame. Pas...”
