< Toren
Quotes/Thoughts[edit | edit source]
Volume 1[edit | edit source]
- (Thoughts) It just wished Erin would stop talking.
- (Thoughts) It scrubbed the ceiling with the fragment of the dustrag hard, wishing — as much as it could wish — that it held a weapon instead.
- (Thoughts) He was guarding his master and that was well. But he had failed to guard a few days ago. He had lost to the Antinium, and that was wrong. Bad. He felt this should not be so.
Volume 2[edit | edit source]
- (Thoughts) He — Had made Erin cry. Was it a bad thing? It wasn’t part of his orders. He was just supposed to obey Erin. Obey and protect and do non-optimal things. Nothing in his instructions mentioned making her happy or sad. So it didn’t matter. That was what Toren thought, and he tried thinking that thought quite hard. But it didn’t help. The sight and memory of Erin crying disturbed him in a way he couldn’t explain. It was… It was wrong. It wasn’t right. It wasn’t how things should have been.
- (Thoughts) Where was he? White snow all around him, rolling hills and valleys around. Somewhere in the plains. He was lost. But that didn’t matter—he could always find Erin again. He was tethered to her. But she didn’t want him. She’d told him to ‘go away’. For how long? Forever? Toren didn’t want to go. But he had to. Those were the orders. They were one of the three things he remembered.
Volume 6[edit | edit source]
- (To Erin) Mother. Erin. Hello. Can you hear me?
- (To Erin) Mother. You want to know why I do what I do. But I have only done what I want. What pleases me.
- (To Erin) I’m so tired, Mother. If not even you love me, if there is no place for me in this strange, painful place, then why was I created at all?
- (To Erin) I have nothing. And I—even she has something. But I don’t even know what I’m missing. I don’t know how to find it. And you won’t give it to me. You hate me.
- (To Erin) Mother. I just want to not worry anymore. To not feel pain. So look, Mother. Look at me.
Volume 7[edit | edit source]
- (To Ijvani) Fight me, you stupid skeleton!
- (To Ijvani) Er—not stupid skeleton! Wonderful bone structure! Especially the tibia!