"The dragon's blood in my veins is not a metaphor. I would prefer you remember that during this negotiation."
"If it only exploded twice during testing, it's basically finished."
"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."
"Depth is not a direction. It is a state of being you have not yet earned."
"The sea does not ask permission to change. Neither do I."
A walking verdict of stone and pressure that answers disturbance with inevitability.
A living cataclysm who believes the world exists to be tested by flame—and found wanting.