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Dec. 15th, 2023 12:02 am"'You haven't seen him work with a knife,' Jaks said. 'He only knows one way to handle the traditional Thebin blade; I suspect he was lethal even at seven. And I'm not sure he hasn't killed before, though he certainly hasn't since he came to Pearl Island.'
[...]
[Jaks] clenched the fingers of his left hand over the wound in his right arm. 'Den's been working with him,' he said, 'But he came to us with that and other equally deadly moves for close work in his bag of tricks. As far as I can tell, with a knife he knows only how to kill'"
-- The Prince of Shadow by Curt Benjamin
I'm tagging this as "books" so I don't lose it, but this is a very important quote to me. Not because it's something to support, but because it's one of the best descriptions of a trauma/panic response I have ever seen in fiction.
[...]
[Jaks] clenched the fingers of his left hand over the wound in his right arm. 'Den's been working with him,' he said, 'But he came to us with that and other equally deadly moves for close work in his bag of tricks. As far as I can tell, with a knife he knows only how to kill'"
-- The Prince of Shadow by Curt Benjamin
I'm tagging this as "books" so I don't lose it, but this is a very important quote to me. Not because it's something to support, but because it's one of the best descriptions of a trauma/panic response I have ever seen in fiction.
