I dedicated myself to the Hours of struggle and conquest.

I dedicated myself to the fire that changes and remakes.

I dedicated myself to the mysteries of birth, blood and appetite.

I dedicated myself to the drumbeat which can never end.

I dedicated myself to the Hours which open doors.

I dedicated myself to the understanding of the Light that leaks from a fiercer place.

I dedicated myself to chaos, and the unexpected Hours.

I dedicated myself to the study of the five Histories, and their thousand demi-real branches.

I dedicated myself to the silence that comes and the cold that ends.

My trial was contentious. But thanks to the Inspector, here I am.

Now we are scholars of the heart.

She ensures I have sweet dreams.

It is hard to tell, with him, whether to laugh or cry.

Our heartbeats quicken together.

The Corrivality is the world's engine.

My body died. Perhaps my spirit entered the Mansus.

Despair, the wolf that devours thought, devoured me.

We dream the same pink dreams.

I may give him his reward.

I am well repaid.

I don't think it really qualifies as a cadaver, so much as a souvenir.

We find, we think, a way.

He is the melody of love, and I hear him now.

The opposite of battle is death.

I was consumed, but another I rose higher.

I was devoured, by another I rose higher.

I was lost to another I's glory.

I have taken the seeds of the Crowned Growth into me.

I wrestled the Forge to victory. I will not grow old.

We wrestled the Forge to victory. We will not grow old.

I gorged on the fruits of the sticky Grail. I will not grow old.

We gorged on the fruits of the sticky Grail. We will not grow old.

I have joined the storm-chorus of the Thunderskin. Never shall I cease.

We have joined the storm-chorus of the Thunderskin. Never shall we cease.

In the Fifth History alone, I will rise like a wave and hood myself to mark what I have become.

I walked behind the Watchman. I will not grow old.

We walked behind the Watchman. We will not grow old.

This is when I would have died, but my wounds were doors.

The Meniscate favoured us.

The Meniscate favoured us.

I have become something winged, dark and undying; something that no longer exists.

We have become something winged, dark and undying; something that no longer exists.

I carry the colours of lost Hours with me like a coal of rosy fire.

He thanks me afterwards.

I couldn't risk them picking up the trail again.

I have one very specific recommendation for the contract...'

NO RECKONERS, NO EXCEPTIONS.

Somehow I can't stop thinking about it...

I've been poor, I've been rich, and I've learnt that I'd rather be rich.

There's a lot of the world, and it's not all mapped yet.

That is enough.

I am drunk with her.

We seem a suited pair.

I would not say it ended badly.

Our home is littered with his notes.

Life is not easy with her.

Our flesh may tire. We may grow old. But I will not regret.

She wants very much to be found.

Any student of Histories knows: as within, so without. One way or another.

We are happy, I think.

One by one we douse the flames.

I no longer have any idea what is real, and what is not.

I honoured my agreement, but I did not have a friend.

The Wolf and all the wandering flames will feast.

I worked. I slaved. I lived a sort of life.

I will be honoured by my peers. And then, one day, I'll die.

I am a successful trophy.

Our house is home to fluttering things.

It has pleased the Peacock Door to yield to my entry.

I have made the necessary sacrifice to enter the Mansus through the Spider Door.

I have answered the riddle of the Stag Door, and am counted among the Know.

The Sun has his course, and so do I.

Speech may not pass the White Door, but I may.

The Wood grows around the walls of the Mansus. As any student of Histories knows, the Mansus has no walls.

I sharpened a believer to their deadliest Edge.

I shaped a mighty believer from the fires of the Forge.

I pledged a believer to the Feast of the Grail.

I drew a believer to the endless Dance of the Heart.

I forged a believer into a true instrument of Knock.

I cast a believer onto the Lantern's path.

I led a believer to the Wood of the Moth.

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I conjured a creature from beyond the skin of the world.