Likely the queen of the Highlands had tried unsuccessfully to recruit her old head-ranger, but I would still question the governess when I returned. “I guess it’s because total power is no power at all. Is the mutilation getting dull? The former means you’re one-hundred-percent on board the moment the pants come off. I knew it would not be the last time I saw her, and I cursed myself for showing her my speed. Even if he could talk, he never would. “I knew he’d come back.”
She looked inquisitively at me. “I don’t speak sarcasm.”
“I wasn’t being sarcastic. And so we go back to the topic of tyrants, and the ruination of nations by a megalomaniacal cult of personality. There are definite winners and losers in life, because life is a game. “You think you can wait me out?” I asked, “Yavara saw what you did. Of course not. She wiped her mouth, her lips bloody and discolored, and she held her dagger between us. He didn’t answer. “Sorry.” I grumbled to the corpse before me. There are definite winners and losers in life, because life is a game.
