~It had been so long since he'd played anything but what he'd been told to play.~

~These were the dreams of a dead man.~

~'Your legs'
'What about them?'...
'I hadn't realised they pained you so much.'...
'I am good at pretending they don't.~

~Dragons did not tell jokes.~

~Oh, they twisted the truth to amuse themselves, but actual humour was beyond them.~

~How do you kill gods, if they could even die?~

~Perhaps, like you, I should also accept defeat. Be quiet and small and live out the life allotted to me.~

~He was not a god, and time was not something men were meant to bring into their own skin.~