In This World, Where We Find Ourselves,

Unless The Perfidious Wolves Have The Temerity To Disobey The High King's Plans, We Should Meet Shalhassan's Forces By The Latham In Mid-wood With The Wolves Between Us. If They Aren't,' Diarmuid Concluded, 'we Blame Anyone And Everything Except The Plan.

Sometimes You Didn't Really Arrive At A Conclusion About Your Life, You Just Discovered That You Already Had.

... Everyone Knew That All Islands Were Worlds Unto Themselves, That To Come To An Island Was To Come To Another World.

The Military Preferred - Invariably - Those Who Could Be Readily Defined, Assigned Roles, Understood, And Controlled.

Words Were Power, Words Tried To Change You, To Shape Bridges Of Longing That No One Could Ever Really Cross.