XMurdoch: Now what's a nasty piece a work like Faden hangin' round your kid brother for? Fair enough. Thanks for the help. ... For the little it's worth, I truly would as soon spare the boy. Tell him to ask blood price. He listens, he might yet live.
Blaine: Make a mighty sure thing of winnin', don't you? I mind me a boy rolled in from St. Louis an' put his chips down against Sullivan when he weren't so much older than Darwin. How'd that play out, mon ami?
Murdoch: I never cut up nobody's girl.
Blaine: No, you never did. But you used to smile at one now and again. I remember you when you still laughed. When you woulda blinked before you kilt a girl four year younger than you. When you woulda thought if maybe there weren't another way. I don't fear him losing, Murdoch. I've seen this manner of war get won. And I want better for my little brother than that.
Blaine: Make a mighty sure thing of winnin', don't you? I mind me a boy rolled in from St. Louis an' put his chips down against Sullivan when he weren't so much older than Darwin. How'd that play out, mon ami?
Murdoch: I never cut up nobody's girl.
Blaine: No, you never did. But you used to smile at one now and again. I remember you when you still laughed. When you woulda blinked before you kilt a girl four year younger than you. When you woulda thought if maybe there weren't another way. I don't fear him losing, Murdoch. I've seen this manner of war get won. And I want better for my little brother than that.
When last we saw.... Blaine - Murdoch
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Spiderforest Comic of the Week time! This week it's Cetiya, a marvelously weird mix of magic and cyberpunk. Pada is an Operative, using his own body as the conduit for spells channeled through the massive hardware system called ADEPT. The cost to him is everything in his brain that's not a spell, most notably his memory; outside of ADEPT, he exists only in the now. Nine, his Operator, acts as his anchor to the world, reeling him in when the hardware takes him too far, storing his memories for him... even those she wants nothing more than to forget....
It's a brilliant and extremely subtle comic, and it scratches my itch for good, brain-bending cyberpunk that isn't unnecessarily grim or bloody -- not an easy itch to scratch, believe me. Go! Read!
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