I feel I could kill. I feel that I might like it. And I know that this should scare me. But it doesn't. It excites me. I am in Plato's cave, watching the shadows and fraught with the desire to hunt what casts them.
All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing__ut the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.
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All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing__ut the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.
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