There were clouds like sharks with open jaws in the sky that morning. - Tanith Lee

I had made vows and to spare, but the present cannot be ruled forever by the past.

Ceedres was her god. To be happy, she must worship him, and let him destroy her, and take pleasure in it.

Superstitious, they did not go after her. They had a robber-god which they worshipped in a cave. His creed declared: ‘For every fifty travelers robbed and slain, let one go free. The gods care for excess in nothing.’