Infante

“A weapon of war, this,” the Infante spoke.  “I keep an assortment, change it out, to remind myself.  These ones, like many of the ones I carry, are the sort we rain down on battlefields and unleash on places under siege-”

“Shut up,” Mary said.

“-to terrorize, destabilize, and to create openings.  Marvelously elegant and nuanced, believe it or not-”

“Shut up!”

“-and only one of five weapons I bear with me today.”

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