“In the dark, courage is a rumor. My blades make it truth… or silence it.”
“Once I walked in silk and shadow. Now I am the shadow—and the silk is my hunger.”
“Where it crawls, the slime hardens into glass—and the fools who mocked it see themselves reflected in the shards.”
“You swear it’s watching you… right up until it bursts and you realize the eye was only there to make you stare.”
“The stone remembers blood… but the slime remembers fear.”
“When the clattering stops, look up. That’s when he’s already chosen.”
“Breathe, little storms of flesh. The rot remembers you… and I remember the rot.”
“You don’t see Gorgadrith’s lair. You see the part of the world she hasn’t eaten yet.”
“The paladin raised his gleaming sword… and the bug looked at it the way a starving man looks at soup.”
“You may pass, soft-walkers… once the stones in your pockets have sung for me.”
“You hear the stone screaming before you see the eyes… and by then, it’s already too late to think straight.”
“The ground shivers first. If you wait to see the fin, you waited too long.”