Sorry, Shanelle. I can do a lot better now.
Besides, he couldn’t really be blamed for spilling his guts to someone who could both read his mind and hack off his toes with no compunction whatsoever, could he? Nevertheless, try telling that to some quiet family guy with three dependent kids, some guy whom Jia had unjustly abducted with his assistance. Explain it to him before he was murdered right in front of him. How many times could anyone sit through that?
With no answer but vague hopes for some half-imagined redemption, Thrall had to fall back on distraction. Thankfully he now had plenty of simple pleasures his incarceration had heretofore denied him.
Up here near the roof of this prodigious citadel, the reeks of clustered humanity didn’t quite reach. And though the sun hadn’t cleared
