Sister Sable

To be in the present seemed meaningless in practice when the present was merely the place in which to plan for the future or review the past.

He didn’t know what beget what, but he quickly learned that people with money to hide were powerful, and powerful people were violent. It was reliable math: as the amount of money being conveyed increased, so too did the level of paranoia; the psychotic behavior of his clients increasing with every figure added to the sum.

I swore on my knees at the altar where you held me that I would kill you. It was an oath you made me make in my own blood. And now I have returned to give you the promised blade.

And the General regrets the night.

There will always be insatiable egotists who need to dominate and control, and there cannot be anarchy if no one follows the rules.

As real as light, it is energy, but not intelligent. It can be manipulated, but it cannot be reasoned with.