"I can't," he said reluctantly, looking down at the journal. "I...shouldn't." Laurean stirred on the bed.
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"He's alive?" Hieronymus peeked out from under the bed. "He's breathing! Help him, please!"
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"Please. I...I'll go with you if you help him. Just let him live."
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
Laurean gasped, jerking as he came to. He lay there for a moment, breathing heavily.
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
He went limp. "...What did you do?" Hieronymus ventured out from under the bed.
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
He obeyed, still extremely reluctant as he cast a look back at his master.
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
Kivvien led the way quickly out to the cart, helping Hieronymus up into a nook where he could still see without being seen, casting notice-me-nots in his paranoia all the way.
"Why are you doing this?" Hieronymus asked miserably.
"The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear. Remember that." -Karis Nemik
"Because that wretched man doesn't have the right to abuse anything with the ability to feel pain. If you don't want to stay with me so be it, but I can't in good concious leave you in that situation."
To be a master of metaphor is the greatest thing by far. It is the one thing that cannot be learnt from others, and it is also a sign of genius. — Aristotle, Poetics
