"The best jokes are the ones they don't realize are jokes until three conversations later."
"The sea keeps better records than any archivist. I simply know how to read them."
"I have seventeen more questions after this one. We may as well get comfortable."
"Ambition builds the tower. Patience inherits everything inside it when the walls give way."
"Lightning does not negotiate. I do. This is a professional courtesy that has an expiration."
"Ships are not lost at sea. They are found. I decide what is worth keeping."
A living cataclysm who believes the world exists to be tested by flame—and found wanting.
A screaming shadow of wing and venom that turns open sky into a killing ground.
Torches down. Knees in the snow. When the collar rattles, you crawl—or you bleed.
Lay down your steel and your heat. Crawl. The ice will remember your shape.