Simple answers to life’s questioning. That would be a magic beyond any I have ever been seeing. - Tad Williams

Are these things you all say magical charms to chase me away? If so, they do not seem to be working.

This fellow," he indicated the woodsman with a sweep of his stick, "will reliably not become more alive, but he may have friends or family who will be unsettled to find him so extremely dead.

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.