Quotes from Andrew Rowe

Trust within a family sounded so reasonable on the surface.

I contemplated the consequences of pushing myself, it put me into a state of panic that no degree of conscious knowledge could counter. The

He could have killed us both if he had wanted to.

Is there someone just giving out legendary magical swords to children? Because I'm fairly certain I recognize all three of those.

I grinned in spite of the awfulness of being touched without warning.

I don't know why I have a pattern of running into hand-destroying situations, but that seems to be my lot in life.

I was never going to not want more swords

Stairs Up! Extremely Dangerous Traps! I Forgot What This One Does! Money! Moderately Dangerous Traps! Mystery! Bigger Monsters! Literally Nothing!

It's not cheating; it's expedited nonlinear puzzle completion.

having a three foot horn sticking through his chest. Unacceptable.

minimal conflict. Keras had told me that light also helped improve mental speed and clarity, implying some overlap with mental mana as well.

That activated the Ring Formerly Known as the Ring of Derek Controlling, which

Headaches from using my attunement? I could deal with them. Existential terror at the possibility of destroying my own mind? Pretty much routine at this point. Doing paperwork for the government?

Words without action behind them are about as useful as an empty cup in the hands of a man dying of thirst.

Unintentional puns are the best.

she quickly went from "elegant noblewoman who could murder me without getting blood on her fashionable dress" to "elegant noblewoman who could murder me without closing the book she was reading". A subtle distinction, really, but an important one.

And I'd ask the goddess to give my brother back. It was the only way to bring my family back together.

we were both content to spend the trip in awkward silence, which was vastly preferable to awkward conversation. ***

Sera put the back of her hand against her forehead. "I screamed in vengeful woe for my fallen comrade, summoning a storm of ice to tear into the dragon's scales. It

I don't know why I have a pattern of running into hand-destroying situations, but that seems to be my lot in life. Maybe I need to figure out how to make magical prosthetics. I should research that later.

I hurt like someone had decided to play the drums on my ribs with a mace, but I didn't think anything was actually broken. That might sound a little strange, given that this monster had both the mass and the general disposition of a siege engine, but I'd never actually managed to find anything that could break my bones.

I nodded. She had a point. A point that I fully intended to ignore. My questions had never been about trying to save myself in the first place. I just wanted to know what variables I had to work with in terms of methods of triggering and avoiding elimination.

Sane people kept their groups to a half dozen or so, though. The tower punished anything it saw as a threat, and everyone knew the stories about what had happened when it did. The Kingdom of Feria had once tried to invade the fifth tower. It was nothing but dust and ruins, now.

I had my answer now. Tristan not only survived, he spent the last five years practicing how to sound like the villain from a stage play. I allowed myself a weak chuckle. But I didn't feel like my joke was particularly funny.