"When the truth of terrible things shake hands with your knowledge, your heart despairs towards the justice of the downtrodden. That is the effect of compassion sustaining in heart. Indifference of emotion and action in humans' minds: that is what leads the world to plunge deeper into the irrecoverable chasms of darkness and dread."
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The Caretaker's Cottage,
Betwixt the Kingdom of Tristendyre and the Hyll-Decantan Promontory,
A far spent hour into the heart of the rainy night,
Second Sunnight of the Second month,
Fiftieth Year of the Reign of Adon-Vericus IV
The night had ushered into the country and thereby, visited also the woods that slept at the skirts thereof. The cottage was cold from the effect of the chilly weather outdoors.
