Assail: We keep this up and I'll talk to you more than I speak with my own mahmen.Vishous: Isn't she dead?Assail: Yes.Vishous: Some bastards have all the luck.

Assail: Tell me, is your Dom reputation just talk, or are you truly that perverted?Vishous: Waste my time with gossip and I'll answer that firsthand.Assail: Kinky.

Fear of change was a weakness

Vengeance was one hell of a roommate.

Sometimes in life, from out of a myriad of prosaic decisions like what to eat and where to sleep and how to dress, a true crossroads is revealed. In these moments, when the fog of relative irrelevancy lifts and fate rolls out a demand for free will, there is only left or right – no option of four-by-fouring into the underbrush between two paths, no negotiating with the choice that has been presented. You must answer the call and pick your way. And there is no reverse.