-”I enjoy it,” the torture smiles “I love the tears, the gore, the smell. All of it. Hedonism in it’s finest.”
-”There’s such beauty in the world!” the hero turns, grinning widely at the villain “There is such good and beauty all around us. All I’ve ever wanted is to make more of it.”
The villain smiles tiredly at the hero. It wasn’t fair that someone so good was already doomed to die.
-”I’m gonna climb that like a tree.”
“The nymph?”
“Yeah. It’s funny, right?”
-Every morning when you wake up, you check the mirror and see something staring back at you from inside your eyes. There’s no name for it, no words to describe it, but you know who it is. And you refuse to be afraid.
-”Listen, xe is very small, and very soft. Xe likes you, for some unknown reason, so I’m sure there’s something good in you somewhere. Be good to xir, child, or i will destroy you.”
-”People like to figure that in a threesome, at least one of us is responsible. Nope- we’re all just different shades of batshit.”
-”Doesn’t that hurt.”
“Better than the pain of complacency.”
-”Somehow, I don’t think I’m going to offer the rescue you desire. I can kill you here, where you stand, or let you go and watch as something else comes along to rip you to shreds. Which one do you want.”
-”I won’t die here. I won’t.”
“You’ll continue on, then?”
“I’ll get it done.”