Funny thing, employment. If you keep doing it, you keep getting paid. - N. K. Jemisin

It is a massive palace, each spire of which could house a village; its chambers contain dozens of entertainments. All of these become tedious to the point of torment after two thousand years. Hells, after twenty.

I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.

My people didn’t use mysterious powers to track you; we used deduction. Much more reliable.