"The Dragon-kin oft play out more lives than regular man. Not because they live longer, in fact the opposite is more likely true, but because life has this wonderful habit of dealing them the strangest of hands." The Dragon-herd has already had three when he meets Kiara, but she is only just starting to live at all.

- COMPLETE - When you kill a man, make sure you give him the respect of your gaze. Hold his eyes until he dies. And then, when the battle is done, remember only that every victory has its price.

When we were abandoned, the only life on an empty world, we made beasts of ourselves.

I had known only two things of love.

They had caught a being of pure emotion, of loathing and lust, a deity of a drowning sea. And they had trapped it the body of another. They had awoken it, and taunted it, and sealed it in flesh.

"I'm your guardian angel." I considered her words for a moment as she stared forlornly at my cooling corpse. It had stopped bleeding. Too little too late I thought bitterly.

As a child, I once bet my soul on a game of cards. One-Shot: Microfiction.