Chapter 30 Sakawi Song
when do we leave
We may be stuck here captive if we try to stay too long. (Turns around.)
Why don't we go away?
Without a word I caress the cracked cup of knowledge unique in silence;
Cannonballs only survived the fall.
──Siaance Ungern, "Complete Collection of Works" (posthumous version of the author)
The Eighteenth Month of the 335th Year of Weiji (Xue Tale's Prophetic Calendar)
Book Nine: "Youth Works and Discarded Drafts"