"Nobody dies faster than a tired soldier."

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“Despite common belief, the goblin language did include a word for trust. It was derived from the word for trustworthy, which in the goblin tongue, was the same as the word for dead.”

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“Jig’s life would be much simpler if she were dead. That more than anything else, convinced him she was still alive.”

“Better the lesser of two oddities.”

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