If the strong can bully the weak without shame, then how are we different from the beasts of forest and field? - Tad Williams

Do you get tired, singing?" she asked.
Gan Itai laughed quietly. "Does a mother grow tired raising her children? Of course, but it is what I do.

Light, with its handmaiden color, was everywhere.

As he silently approached the last float, a latticework ball of reeds, he offered an unspoken prayer to He Who Always Steps on Sand that even now the little bottom-walkers were pushing and shoving their way into the cage below. Because of his unusual education, which included a year living on Perdruin—unheard of for a Wrannaman—Tiamak did not really believe in He Who Always Steps on Sand anymore, but he still held a fondness for him, such as might be felt for a senile grandfather who often tumbled down from the house, but once brought nuts and carved toys. Besides, it never hurt to pray, even if one did not believe in the object of prayer. It helped to compose the mind, and, at the very least, it impressed others.