“I do not punish wickedness. I restore what virtue demands in its absence.”
“I grant nothing freely. I merely allow the world to catch up with what it has already desired.”
“I was born with a destiny I did not choose—and a power I cannot set down.”
“I do not command the future. I remember what it promised.”
“Every answer has already been spoken. You are merely arriving late.”
At the edge of the world, where the wind never truly rests and the ice remembers every footstep, there stands a village that refuses to fall.
“The reed that bends survives the flood. The reed that resists becomes debris.”
“Light doesn’t stop the dark—but it tells you where you’re standing.”
“You don’t rush peat. You cut it wrong, the bog remembers.”
“The tide remembers every promise ever whispered into it.”
“The water always takes something—but if you listen close, it tells you what it wants first.”
“All threads lead to the Web. All struggles end in her fangs.”