Necessary is often the mother of light fingers instead of invention. - Michael Bishop

Magistrate, a problem doesn't cease to exist simply because you cease to consider it a problem.
"Very often, Deputy Foutlif, it does.

Do you expect even dreams to unravel rationally, Kahl Balduin? Must each event have a precise, empirical cause?
"No, not if you're narrating a dream. But if you claim, like the Pledgeson, that your visions and reality are the same thing, then, yes I expect consistency. I'm too old for pointless fairy tales.

They had both changed in eight years, eroded or subtly augmented by the sweep of time’s river.