Empress Kabani -

They were not walking into a battlefield. They were walking into a feast . Gorath’s soldiers began to desert. Why die for a madman when the “enemy” was feeding you? On the dawn of the battle, Kabani walked out alone, unarmored, carrying a single lotus flower. Gorath laughed. He ordered his archers to loose.

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Kabani was not born to the purple. She was the daughter of pearl divers, a woman with salt water in her veins and lightning in her left eye (the chronicles note she wore a sapphire over it, not from vanity, but because “looking upon the future burns the unprepared”). When the last Emperor of the Three Rivers died without an heir, the council of warlords tore the empire apart. They burned the libraries. They salted the fields. They were not walking into a battlefield

So the next time you feel powerless—when the warlords of the modern world seem too strong—remember the woman with the sapphire eye. Remember the battle where no arrows flew. Remember the Law of Mirrors. Why die for a madman when the “enemy” was feeding you