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Volume 1

• To Erin:
  • “Innkeeper—Erin Solstice. I am sorry for the death of Klbkch and the Worker. I regret their death and your suffering.”
  • “I would like to be known as ‘Pawn’. It is a fitting name for this individual.”

Volume 2

• To Erin:
  • “What wIll we dO, EriN? wHAt wILL We bEcOme?”
  • “What is ‘heaven’? I know of hell, but I have never heard of heaven.”

Volume 3

• To Krshia:
  • “You are the shopkeeper that Erin trusts. So I trust you.”
  • “I think it is something, rather than nothing. An apology—the beginning of one, at least.”
• To Zel:
  • “What do you tell a soldier under your command when he is dying?”
  • “You see, I do not know what to say. I can only hold them, but I do not know what is supposed to be said. But there must be something. What do you say?”

Volume 4

• To Yellow Splatters:
  • “I am not worthy of a command. I do not know war. But you do. You have fought longer than I have. You know battle. You know each other. So come. Step forwards.”
  • “As Individual Pawn, given command of this unit of Soldiers, I, with the authority of my Hive, promote you. You are no longer a [Soldier]. You are a [Sergeant].”
• (To the Painted Soldiers) “I cannot be your leader. I cannot. But I could never abandon you. I will walk with you in battle. I will be by your side. I will do the only thing I can do.”

Volume 5

• (To his Unit) “So she is not a friend. She must be more. And I have no friends within the Hive. Workers, Individuals such as Anand and Belgrade, Soldiers…we cannot be called friends. We find friends. But we have ever been family.”
• (To Krshia) “Purple Smile says that when the Antinium go above, you do not look away or say…things. And when we buy food, yours is always good and not rotten. You are fair and, he thinks, wise. Sometimes you chat with him and he thinks you give good advice.”
• To Lyonette:
  • “I am an [Acolyte], Lyonette. I pray. I have faith. I believe. I believe in things that may not exist, may never exist. I believe in heaven for the Antinium. I believe in redemption, in the salvation of souls. I believe there is a place after death for my people, that we might make it ourselves. I believe in gods. I believe in gods. But when you tell me you are a simple [Barmaid], I cannot believe in that.”
  • “She asked me if I liked you, Miss Krshia, I mean. I said yes. She kept asking how much. And I told her. I like Erin. I owe her my identity and my life and more than I can give. But for some reason I like you more.”
• (To Bird) “You will be well. I will pray for you. You will be well, Bird. Be well.”
• (To Purple Smile) “Her favorite Worker?”

Volume 6

• (To Anand) “I must disagree with your philosophy then, Anand. Even while I admit that your strategy is sound.”
• (To his flock) “I am a poor leader. But even grass sits under the sky. Come. And look. This is what I saw when I first looked up. When I saw her face. [Holy Radiance].”

Volume 7

• (To Yellow Splatters) “If Bird says so, Yellow Splatters…he has never ever asked something of us. Let us go.”
• (To Klbkch) “I know. But I will not go. You are wrong. And I—will not run when I am right. Some things are worth dying for.”
• (To Lyonette) “Are we ashamed? Erin said that shame was a sign of sin in her story about the Garden of Eden. Not the [Garden of Sanctuary], but it seems to me that Erin will find out eventually—”
• To Erin:
  • “Try to make them better, Erin. As you did with us. Did you see nothing of us in there? If they are a people…”
  • “Perhaps, then, you must believe there is goodness there. And try.”
• (To Belgrade) “She is alive. She is alive. She is dead. She is neither. They killed her, Belgrade. They. kILLeD hEr.”

Volume 8

• (To Dekass) “I achieved my level and class because I knew Erin Solstice. I ‘achieved’ the ability to summon Aberrations because she died.”
• (To Green Baron) “Enough? Did you ask me if I thought it was enough? If I thought hECtvAl suffered enough?”
• To Dekass:
  • “I do. My heart tells me ‘yes’. My soul desires this. It is what we must be. It may be necessary. However. Something holds me back.”
  • “Erin Solstice. If she were here, I believe she would stop me. I do not know if Lyonette would. But I think Erin would.”
  • “She is not here. I do not know. But I know. But we must be this, Erin. Yes. And no. It is only that, Dekass. Only a certainty.”
  • “I think if she saw this, she would weep. I think she would cry for what it means. What we become. But she is not. And I cannot ask her what she would say. So I follow my own words. And they say this: rise, Green Baron. The rest of you. I will let you choose.”
• (To Free Antinium [Crusaders]) “You are not Armored Antinium. You are not mere Soldiers or Workers. Each of you who chooses this—you will leave your Hive. You will march under sky and star. None of you may return. I pray you all will. But you will go to fight our enemies, risking your lives so that more might survive. You are more than any Antinium that have ever come before.”
• To Antinium congregation:
  • “Their names were Knight and Bishop. They chose them, as I did, in moments. You have never met them, most of you. They had no markings we could paint on the walls. So: remember their names. They were the first of us. They will not be the last. Nor will they be forgotten. They are in a better place. The best place. Believe in that. What we do matters.”
  • “If they fall, if they die—let the Heaven of Antinium hold a place for the Horns of Hammerad. Whenever that day comes, now, or in a hundred years. For our friends, for good people. For little kittens and dogs and kind things—Heaven is not so petty they would not be with us. Let us pray.”
• To Mrsha:
  • “I did not come by, except to visit Erin, because I felt that Lyonette’s request might be problematic. You—do not like me much, do you, Mrsha?”
  • “It is just as well, I suppose, that you do not like me, Mrsha. After all. I never liked you much either.”
  • “I suppose it is not fair, Mrsha. I am being unreasonable. It is just…when you came to the inn, Erin had less time for me. I know it was necessary, but I resented that, though I never told her. You see, I was Mrsha before Mrsha. You took my place.”
  • “Thank you, Mrsha. I miss her. That is all. And I will not take up your time or bother you. We do not have to like each other, Mrsha. However, if you need help, I will give it. I know you are safe here, but if you need me—ask. And I will do what I can.”
• (To Rufelt) “Because I must. To be Antinium is to know your kind dying each day. Less now, than before. But they die. I mourn them all, Rufelt. But I must continue even if I bleed. To make things better for the living—and the dead. I know terrible pain, and I may know worse still, though I cannot believe it. I continue because I believe it will end someday.”
• (To Mrsha) “Strange. Is she some kind of clothing-mage?”
• (To Seborn) “Then perhaps you are looking for something else. If you wish to watch…we are going to visit her.”