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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 1199348" data-attributes="member: 1656"><p>I'm going to quote a Steven Brust passage. To call it tangentially relevant is probably overstating the case, but any opportunity to quote Steven Brust is a good one <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p><p></p><p>(It's got the word 'surrender' in it, anyway.)</p><p></p><p><em>Sethra the Younger's greatest moment had occurred during the Third Battle of Hartstongue Wash. On this occasion, she was serving as a brigadier under Sethra Lavode, who had entrusted to her the Flooding Pass, vital as the supply line to the army, with the instructions "If they wish for this real estate, you must bargain with them for it, and be certain you get a good price." Now Sethra the Younger, intrigued by this formulation, decided to take it more literally than it had been intended, and so, when the Duke of Softrock threatened her position, she came forward under a flag of truce, and said to him, "My dear Softrock, I believe you wish to control this pass."</em></p><p><em>"Well, and if I do?"</em></p><p><em>"Then you may have it."</em></p><p><em>"How, you surrender it?"</em></p><p><em>"Exactly. But I must receive for it one-third of your command, to be sent back to the prison camps behind our lines."</em></p><p><em>"What? A third of my command?"</em></p><p><em>"Yes, my dear Duke. That is the price. And, if you are wise, you will take it!"</em></p><p><em>"Bah! The price is too high!"</em></p><p><em>"You think so? Well then, come and see if you can gain it for any less," upon which she returned to her lines, and, in the event, defended the ground with such skill and ferocity that the Duke lost some ten percent of his force in killed, wounded, and captured, and at no time came close to taking the position. We hope this story will serve to tell something of the character of Sethra the Younger, for it is all we wish to say of her at this time, and therefore the reader is obliged to be satisfied.</em></p><p></p><p>Steven Brust, <u>The Paths of the Dead</u>.</p><p></p><p>-Hyp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 1199348, member: 1656"] I'm going to quote a Steven Brust passage. To call it tangentially relevant is probably overstating the case, but any opportunity to quote Steven Brust is a good one ;) (It's got the word 'surrender' in it, anyway.) [i]Sethra the Younger's greatest moment had occurred during the Third Battle of Hartstongue Wash. On this occasion, she was serving as a brigadier under Sethra Lavode, who had entrusted to her the Flooding Pass, vital as the supply line to the army, with the instructions "If they wish for this real estate, you must bargain with them for it, and be certain you get a good price." Now Sethra the Younger, intrigued by this formulation, decided to take it more literally than it had been intended, and so, when the Duke of Softrock threatened her position, she came forward under a flag of truce, and said to him, "My dear Softrock, I believe you wish to control this pass." "Well, and if I do?" "Then you may have it." "How, you surrender it?" "Exactly. But I must receive for it one-third of your command, to be sent back to the prison camps behind our lines." "What? A third of my command?" "Yes, my dear Duke. That is the price. And, if you are wise, you will take it!" "Bah! The price is too high!" "You think so? Well then, come and see if you can gain it for any less," upon which she returned to her lines, and, in the event, defended the ground with such skill and ferocity that the Duke lost some ten percent of his force in killed, wounded, and captured, and at no time came close to taking the position. We hope this story will serve to tell something of the character of Sethra the Younger, for it is all we wish to say of her at this time, and therefore the reader is obliged to be satisfied.[/i] Steven Brust, [u]The Paths of the Dead[/u]. -Hyp. [/QUOTE]
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