Chapter 20
The hunger for love
Is much more difficult to remove
Than the hunger for bread.
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Mother Theresa
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Haven-2: Cherubim Monastery
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Azrael focused on today's lesson: ‘How to Pretend You’re Alive When You’re Really Not.’ That wasn’t what she called it, of course. The Regent preferred more innocuous sounding names for the lessons which had started with ‘How NOT to Destroy a Solar System Every Time You Get Upset.’ As he’d gained control of his power, the lessons had been fine-tuned into things like ‘Holding a Shape that Isn’t so Repulsive People Run Screaming’ and ‘How to Sit on a Chair Without Dissipating It and Landing Flat on Your Back.’
It was only the past few decades he’d begun to master reshaping matter. Controlled destruction, she called it. A skill the Regent knew w
