Dignity is like morality, Mirabilis barked. Too much is as bad as too little. - M. K. Hobson

In New Bethel, we take the word serious. We whip whores, we hang thieves, and we burn sorcerers.

What kind of idiot do you think I am?
"I have no idea what kind of idiot you are," Miss Jesczenka said. "That's why I'm asking."

Spread out before the pyramid, as far as the eye could see, stretched a frozen ocean of blackness—stinking oily blackness that bubbled and churned. Voider than void, colder than cold, deader than dead.
It is your world.
It is the world we will make for you.