“How? a still shaken Nechtan demanded.Britha had always hated to give magic as an answer. More often than not, another answer could be found.Magic, she said.”

“Du Bois didnt fully understand democracy. It seemed pointless to give people the right to self-determination when so few had any interest in it. Now that humanity had reached a certain level of com...”

“Du Bois sighed theatrically. Its as if Oscar Wilde never died for our sins.”

“You know, Alexia started, I will be deeply disappointed if the apocalypse starts in Portsmouth.”

“I thought the power you had was in your arms and legs and the weapons you bear?”“Don’t forget my cock.”

“How?’ a still shaken Nechtan demanded.Britha had always hated to give magic as an answer. More often than not, another answer could be found.‘Magic,’ she said.”

“Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.”

“As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.”

“What a curious power words have.”