"For a hundred and twenty
years, I have been a member of the Circle Denayi, and all the poisons
that tried to find me failed. All save this one. For six-score
years, I wielded power stolen from the dead and heard the ghosts
whispering. With their help, I crushed the enemies of House Denayi,
put down rivals, raised up friends. Which enemy finally found me?
I know it does not matter. From my death-bed, I look through
the window at the dawn, and I fear something greater than death.
From the day I joined the Circle, my soul has been as bound to the Pylon
as any whose voice I ever heard or whose substance I abused. Soon
I will join the voices in the cold, hard stone. I wish that I had
refused the power. Better, I wish that I had never been
born."
--- last words attributed to
Lucius Denayi (d. 4793 Y.P.)
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