I am suggesting, [ The poker swipes at air: Grip familiar as any apprentice's staff. ] That it didn't require study. Do you really think I'd cultivate this?
[ Until he was pressed. Until he needed an edge. Until his back was to the wall, and no one thinks to silence a healer, do they? Not while another's spitting fire in their face. Until he'd done it, and there was no turning back, and only good sense to work out the rest — ]
I don't know if anyone else could.
[ There's nothing new under the sun. The sun's what he'd have been under, to ask. ]
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I am suggesting, [ The poker swipes at air: Grip familiar as any apprentice's staff. ] That it didn't require study. Do you really think I'd cultivate this?
[ Until he was pressed. Until he needed an edge. Until his back was to the wall, and no one thinks to silence a healer, do they? Not while another's spitting fire in their face. Until he'd done it, and there was no turning back, and only good sense to work out the rest — ]
I don't know if anyone else could.
[ There's nothing new under the sun. The sun's what he'd have been under, to ask. ]