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The laws of physics took precedence over heroic intent for the next couple of seconds.

Kareen was by no means sure Mark was a potential husband. He was still working his heart out on becoming a potential human being.

You were kind.”

Cazaril shrugged. “Why not? What could it cost me, after all?”

Bergon shook his head. “Any man can be kind when he is comfortable. I’d always thought kindness a trivial virtue, therefore. But when we were hungry, thirsty, sick, frightened, with our deaths shouting at us, in the heart of horror, you were still as unfailingly courteous as a gentleman at his ease before his own hearth.”

“Events may be horrible or inescapable. Men have always a choice — if not whether, then how, they may endure.