Vendetta is a cruel gauntlet, enslaving both the agent and recipient under the scourge of strike and counterstrike, flogging both onto more severe retaliation with the whip of hatred and intolerance, each lash laying upon wounds barely healed, further fomenting the spiraling cycle of reprisal, until the original transgression is a forgotten blur and the requiters resemble raw masses of flayed flesh, the gauntlet rarely killing early.—Lex Talionis: The Unlawful Law, by the Sectathon Wizard Probing Gaze.
Lex Talionis: The Unlawful Law“Are you sure you want to file these charges, Lord Captain?” the pyrathon Colonel Scratching Wolf asked mildly, regarding the other man over parchment.
“I am, Lord Colonel,” Probing Gaze replied.
The Colonel scratched his nose.
As the silence lengthened, Pro
